For Good News has been brought to us as truly as to them; but the message they heard failed to benefit them, because they were not one in faith with those who gave heed to it.

For when God gave the promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,

Now think how great this priest-king must have been to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth part of the best of the spoil.

Let us hold firmly to an unflinching avowal of our hope, for He is faithful who gave us the promises.

Through faith Noah, being divinely taught about things as yet unseen, reverently gave heed and built an ark for the safety of his family, and by this act he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which depends on faith.

Through faith Joseph, when he was near his end, made mention of the departure of the descendants of Israel, and gave orders about his own body.