These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

Now these three remain:
faith, hope, and love.
But the greatest of these is love.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.

Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to build up the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,

so that the genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Simeon Peter, a slave and an apostle of Jesus Christ:

To those who have obtained a faith of equal privilege with ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.

Is the

I am certain that I will see the Lord’s goodness
in the land of the living.

Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.

Hoped

so that you won’t become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.

The evidence

By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Now in this hope we were saved, yet hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

You love Him, though you have not seen Him. And though not seeing Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with inexpressible and glorious joy,

General references

And no one, after drinking old wine, wants new, because he says, ‘The old is better.’”