e have for yourselves a better
and an enduring substance.

(35)Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great
recompense of reward. (36)For ye have need of patience, that having
done the will of God ye may receive the promise. (37)For yet a little
while, he that is to come will come, and will not delay. (38)Now, the
just shall live by faith; but if he draw back, my soul has no pleasure
in him. (39)But we are not of those who draw back unto perdition; but
of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

XI.

NOW faith is the assurance of things hoped for[11:1], the conviction
of things not seen. (2)For in this the elders obtained a good report.

(3)Through faith we perceive that the worlds were framed by the word
of God, so that what is seen has not arisen[11:3] out of things which
appear.

(4)By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain,
by which he received testimony that he was righteous, God testifying
of his gifts; and through it, being dead, he yet speaks.

(5)By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and he
was not found, because God translated him; for before his translation,
he has had the testimony that he pleased God. (6)But without faith it
is impossible to please him; for he who comes to God must believe that
he is, and that he is a rewarder to those who seek after him.

(7)By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning things not yet seen,
moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; by which
he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is
according to faith.

(8)By faith Abraham when called obeyed, to go forth into a place which
he should afterward receive for an inheritance, and went forth, not
knowing whither he went. (9)By faith he sojourned in the land of
promise, as a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob,
heirs with him of the same promise; (10)for he looked for the city
which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

(11)By faith Sarah herself also received power to conceive seed, even
when she was past age, because she accounted him faithful who had
promised. (12)Wherefore also there sprang from one, and him become as
dead, even as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand which
is by the sea shore innumerable.

(13)These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but
having seen them from afar, and greeted them, and professed that they
were strangers