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Hebrews 11
¹⁴ Obviously people who say such things are looking forward to a country they can call their own.
¹⁵ If they had longed for the country they came from, they could have gone back.
¹⁶ But they were looking for a better place, a heavenly homeland. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
¹⁷ It was by faith that Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice when God was testing him. Abraham, who had received God’s promises, was ready to sacrifice his only son, Isaac,
¹⁸ even though God had told him, “Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted.”
¹⁹ Abraham reasoned that if Isaac died, God was able to bring him back to life again. And in a sense, Abraham did receive his son back from the dead.
²⁰ It was by faith that Isaac promised blessings for the future to his sons, Jacob and Esau.
²¹ It was by faith that Jacob, when he was old and dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and bowed in worship as he leaned on his staff.
²² It was by faith that Joseph, when he was about to die, said confidently that the people of Israel would leave Egypt. He even commanded them to take his bones with them when they left.
²³ It was by faith that Moses’ parents hid him for three months when he was born. They saw that God had given them an unusual child, and they were not afraid to disobey the king’s command.
²⁴ It was by faith that Moses, when he grew up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.