All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water.

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

And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these is love.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.

Paul, bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's elect, and knowledge of the truth which is according to piety;

that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes, though it be proved by fire, be found to praise and glory and honour in the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Simon Peter, bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have received like precious faith with us through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

Is the

Unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living ...!

Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Hoped

that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience have been inheritors of the promises.

The evidence

By faith, Noah, oracularly warned concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen are for a time, but those that are not seen eternal.

So if any one be in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:

whom, having not seen, ye love; on whom though not now looking, but believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and filled with the glory,

General references

And no one having drunk old wine straightway wishes for new, for he says, The old is better.