These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming [them], and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth.

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

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks with respect to repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

And now these three [things] remain: faith, hope, [and] love. But the greatest of these [is] love.

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

Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of the chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth that [is] according to godliness,

so that the genuineness of your faith, more valuable than gold that is passing away, but is tested by fire, may be found to [result in] praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a faith equal in value to ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.

Is the

Surely I believe [that I will] see the goodness of Yahweh in [the] land of [the] living.

Why are you {in despair}, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I shall again praise him, {my salvation} and my God.

Hoped

in order that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and patience.

The evidence

By faith Noah, having been warned about things not yet seen, out of reverence constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family, by which he pronounced sentence on the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?

[because] we are not looking at what is seen, but what is not seen. For what is seen [is] temporary, but what is not seen [is] eternal.

Therefore if anyone [is] in Christ, [he is] a new creation; the old [things] have passed away; behold, new [things] have come.

whom, [although you] have not seen, you love; in whom now you believe, [although you] do not see [him], and you rejoice greatly with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

General references

And no one [after] drinking old [wine] wants new, because he says, 'The old is [just] fine!'"