Fondare 330 Risultati per: Faith
Not for us to shrink away, and be lost; it is for us to have faith, and save our souls. (Hebrews 10, 39)
What is faith? It is that which gives substance to our hopes, which convinces us of things we cannot see. (Hebrews 11, 1)
It is faith that lets us understand how the worlds were fashioned by God’s word; how it was from things unseen that the things we see took their origin. (Hebrews 11, 3)
It was in faith that Abel offered a sacrifice richer than Cain’s, and was proved thereby to be justified, since God recognized his offering; through that offering of his he still speaks in death.✻ (Hebrews 11, 4)
When Enoch was taken away without the experience of death, when God took him and no more was seen of him, it was because of his faith; that is the account we have of him before he was taken, that he pleased God;✻ (Hebrews 11, 5)
and it is impossible to please God without faith. Nobody reaches God’s presence until he has learned to believe that God exists, and that he rewards those who try to find him. (Hebrews 11, 6)
When Noe received a warning about dangers still unseen, it was faith that made him take alarm, and build an ark to preserve his family. Thus he proved the whole world wrong, and was left heir to the justification which comes through faith. (Hebrews 11, 7)
And he to whom the name of Abraham was given shewed faith when he left his home, obediently, for the country which was to be his inheritance; left it without knowing where his journey would take him.✻ (Hebrews 11, 8)
Faith taught him to live as a stranger in the land he had been promised for his own, encamping there with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of a common hope; (Hebrews 11, 9)
It was faith that enabled Sara, barren till then, to conceive offspring, although she was past the age of child-bearing; she believed that God would be faithful to his word. (Hebrews 11, 11)
It was faith they lived by, all of them, and in faith they died; for them, the promises were not fulfilled, but they looked forward to them and welcomed them at a distance, owning themselves no better than strangers and exiles on earth. (Hebrews 11, 13)
Abraham shewed faith, when he was put to the test, by offering up Isaac. He was ready to offer up an only son, this man who had made the promises his own, (Hebrews 11, 17)
