All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth.

let us approach with a TRUE heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed in pure water.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

And now remain faith, hope, love, these three, but the greater of these is love.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

Paul, a bondman of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the chosen of God, and the knowledge of truth according to piety,

so that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold that perishes, and though proven by fire, may be found for praise and esteem and for glory at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

Simon Peter, a bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

Is the

I believe that I shall see the goodness of LORD in the land of the living.

Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.

Hoped

so that ye may not become lazy, but imitators of those who, through faith and longsuffering, inherit the promises.

The evidence

By faith Noah, being divinely warned about things not yet seen, moved with awe, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became an heir of righteousness according to faith.

For we were saved to hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what is seen, why also hope for that?

while we look not at things seen, but at things not seen. For things seen are temporal, but things not seen are eternal.

So then if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

Whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, not now seeing but believing, ye exult in inexpressible and glorified joy,

General references

And no man having drunk old straightaway desires new, for he says, The old is better.