Part 8

58:010:025 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

58:010:026 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

58:010:027 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

58:010:028 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

58:010:029 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

58:010:030 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

58:010:031 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

58:010:032 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

58:010:033 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.

58:010:034 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

58:010:035 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

58:010:036 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

58:010:037 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

58:010:038 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

58:010:039 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

58:011:001 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

58:011:002 For by it the elders obtained a good report.

58:011:003 Through 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.

58:011:004 By 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.

58:011:005 By 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.

58:011:006 But 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.

58:011:007 By 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.

58:011:008 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

58:011:009 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

58:011:010 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

58:011:011 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

58:011:012 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

58:011:013 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.