¹Now trust is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not being seen.

²For in this the ancients were commended.

³By trust we understand the ages to have been formed by the word of God, so that the thing being seen became not out of things being visible.

⁴By trust Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God bearing witness to his gifts; and through it, when he had died, he still speaks.

⁵By trust Enoch was translated, not to see death, and he was not found because God took him up; for before his translation he has been commended to have pleased God.

⁶Now without trust it is impossible to please Him; for it behooves the one drawing near to God to trust that He exists and that He becomes a rewarder to those earnestly seeking Him out.

⁷By trust Noah, when he had been divinely instructed concerning the things not yet seen, having been moved with fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is according to trust.

⁸By trust Abraham, being called, obeyed to go out into a place that he was going to receive for an inheritance, and went out not knowing where he is going.

⁹By trust he sojourned in the land of the promise as in a foreign country, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise;

¹⁰for he was awaiting the city having the foundations, of which the architect and builder is God.

¹¹By trust Sarah herself also, being barren, received power for the conception of seed even beyond the opportune age, and she brought forth, since she considered the One having promised faithful.

¹²Therefore also from one man, and he as good as dead, were born even as the stars of the sky in multitude and as the countless sand by the shore of the sea.

¹³In trust these all died, not having received the promises, but had seen them from afar and had been persuaded and having embraced them, and had confessed that they are strangers and sojourners on the land.

¹⁴For those saying such things make manifest that they are seeking their country.

¹⁵And if indeed they were remembering that one from where they came out, they would then have had opportunity to return;

¹⁶but now they stretch forward to a better one, that is, to a heavenly one; therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; indeed He has prepared for them a city.

¹⁷By trust Abraham, being tested, has offered up Isaac, and the one having received the promises was offering up his only begotten son,

¹⁸as to whom it was said that in Isaac will your offspring be reckoned;

¹⁹having reasoned that God was able to raise even out from the dead, from where he also received him in a simile.

²⁰By trust Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau also concerning the things coming.

²¹By trust Jacob, dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped on the top of his staff.

²²By trust Joseph, dying, made mention concerning the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions concerning his bones.

²³By trust Moses, when he had been born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw the little child was beautiful, and they did not fear the edict of the king.

²⁴By trust Moses, having become grown, refused to be named the son of the daughter of Pharaoh,

²⁵rather having chosen to suffer affliction with the people of God than to have the temporary enjoyment of sin,

²⁶having esteemed the reproach of the Anointed One greater wealth than the treasures in Egypt; for he was looking toward the reward.

²⁷By trust he left Egypt, not having feared the anger of the king; for he persevered as seeing the Invisible One.

²⁸By trust he has kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroys the firstborn may not touch them.

²⁹By trust they passed through the Red Sea as through dry land, which, the Egyptians having made an attempt, they were swallowed up.

³⁰By trust the walls of Jericho fell, having been encircled for seven days.

³¹By trust Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who disobeyed, having received the spies with peace.

³²And what more shall I say? For the time will fail me telling of Gideon, Barak, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also and Samuel and the prophets;

³³who through trust conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,

³⁴quenched the power of fire, escaped the blades of the sword, were empowered out of weakness, became mighty in war, put to flight the armies of foreigners.

³⁵Women received back their dead by resurrection; then others were tortured, not having accepted the release, so that they may obtain a better resurrection;

³⁶then others received trial of mockings and of scourgings, in addition also of chains and imprisonment;

³⁷they were stoned, they were sawed in two, tested, they were killed by slaughter of the sword; they wandered in sheepskins, in goats' skins, being destitute, being oppressed, being mistreated,

³⁸of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts and in mountains and in caves and in the holes of the land.

³⁹And these all, having been commended through the trust, did not receive the promise,

⁴⁰God having planned something better for us, so that not apart from us they may be made perfect.