These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed 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 sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies having been washed with pure water.

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

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

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

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ (according to the faith of God's elect, in the acknowledging of the truth which is according to godliness

so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of our God and our Savior Jesus Christ,

Is the

I would have fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you moan within me? Hope in God; for I still praise Him, the salvation of my face, and my God.

Hoped

that you be not slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

The evidence

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

For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope for it?

we not considering the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are not lasting, but the things which are not seen are everlasting.

So that if any one is in Christ, that one is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

whom having not seen, you love; in whom not yet seeing, but believing in Him you exult with unspeakable joy, and having been glorified,

General references

Also no one having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, The old is better.