These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off and believing them and embracing them and confessing that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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

testifying both to the Jews and also to the Gentiles, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

And now abide faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by charity.

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

that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold (which perishes, nevertheless it is tried with fire), might be found unto praise and glory and honour when Jesus, the Christ, is made manifest;

Simon Peter, slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those that have obtained like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

Is the

I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

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

Hoped

that ye not become slothful, but imitators of those who by faith and patience inherit the promises.

The evidence

By faith Noah, having received revelation of things not seen as yet, with great care prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and was made heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

For in hope we are saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man sees, he does not wait for.

while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are made new.

whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though at present ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory;

General references

No one also having drunk of the old straightway desires the new, for he says, The old is better.