Epistle
Hebrews 10.35-11.7
Read in context10:35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
10:36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
10:37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
10:38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
10:39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
11:1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
11:2For by it the elders obtained a good report.
11:3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
11:4By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
11:5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
11:6But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
11:7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.