011:007 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.
011:008 Through faith Abraham, upon being called to leave home and go into a land which he was soon to receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he was going to.
011:009 Through faith he came and made his home for a time in a land which had been promised to him, as if in a foreign country, living in tents together with Isaac and Jacob, sharers with him in the same promise;
011:010 for he continually looked forward to the city which has the foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
011:011 Through faith even Sarah herself received strength to become
a mother—although she was past the time of life for this—
because she judged Him faithful who had given the promise.
011:012 And thus there sprang from one man, and him practically dead,
a nation like the stars of the sky in number, and like the sands
on the sea shore which cannot be counted.
011:013 All these died in the possession of faith. They had not received the promised blessings, but had seen them from a distance and had greeted them, and had acknowledged themselves to be foreigners and strangers here on earth;
011:014 for men who acknowledge this make it manifest that they are
seeking elsewhere a country of their own.
011:015 And if they had cherished the remembrance of the country they
had left, they would have found an opportunity to return;
011:016 but, as it is, we see them eager for a better land, that is to say,
a heavenly one. For this reason God is not ashamed to be
called their God, for He has now prepared a city for them.