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Hebreus 11 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
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1The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It's our handle on what we can't see.
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1Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen .
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2The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd.
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2For by this faith the men of old gained approval.
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3By faith, we see the world called into existence by God's word, what we see created by what we don't see.
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3By faith we understand that the worlds (universe, ages) were framed and created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.
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4By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. It was what he believed, not what he brought, that made the difference. That's what God noticed and approved as righteous. After all these centuries, that belief continues to catch our notice.
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4By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which it was testified of him that he was righteous (upright, in right standing with God), and God testified by accepting his gifts. And though he died, yet through faith he still speaks.
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5By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. "They looked all over and couldn't find him because God had taken him." We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken "he pleased God."
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5By faith Enoch was caught up and taken to heaven so that he would not have a glimpse of death; and he was not found because God had taken him; for even before he was taken , he received the testimony that he had walked with God and pleased Him.
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6It's impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.
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6But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever comes to God must believe that God exists and that He rewards those who seek Him.
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7By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn't see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.
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7By faith Noah, being warned by God about events not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his family. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.
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8By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God's call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going.
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8By faith Abraham, when he was called , obeyed by going to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went, not knowing where he was going.
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9By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise.
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9By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.
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10Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations—the City designed and built by God.
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10For he was looking forward to the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
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11By faith, barren Sarah was able to become pregnant, old woman as she was at the time, because she believed the One who made a promise would do what he said.
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11By faith even Sarah herself received the ability to conceive , even past the normal age for it, because she considered Him who had given her the promise to be reliable and true .
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12That's how it happened that from one man's dead and shriveled loins there are now people numbering into the millions.
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12So from one man, though he was as good as dead, were born as many descendants as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand on the seashore.
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13Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in this world.
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13All these died in faith , without receiving the promises, only having seen (anticipated) them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
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14People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for their true home.
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14Now those who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own.
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15If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted.
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15And if they had been thinking of that country from which they departed , they would have had opportunity to return.
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16But they were after a far better country than that—heaven country. You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them.
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16But the truth is that they were longing for a better country, that is, a heavenly one. For that reason God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for He has prepared a city for them.
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17By faith, Abraham, at the time of testing, offered Isaac back to God. Acting in faith, he was as ready to return the promised son, his only son, as he had been to receive him—
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17By faith Abraham, when he was tested , offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was ready to sacrifice his only son ;
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18and this after he had already been told, "Your descendants shall come from Isaac."
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18to whom it was said, "Through Isaac your descendants shall be called."
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19Abraham figured that if God wanted to, he could raise the dead. In a sense, that's what happened when he received Isaac back, alive from off the altar.
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19For he considered that God was able to raise Isaac even from among the dead. Abraham did receive him back figuratively speaking.
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20By an act of faith, Isaac reached into the future as he blessed Jacob and Esau.
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20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau , even regarding things to come.
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21By an act of faith, Jacob on his deathbed blessed each of Joseph's sons in turn, blessing them with God's blessing, not his own—as he bowed worshipfully upon his staff.
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21By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and bowed in worship, leaning on the top of his staff.
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22By an act of faith, Joseph, while dying, prophesied the exodus of Israel, and made arrangements for his own burial.
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22By faith Joseph, when he was dying, referred to the exodus of the sons of Israel , and gave instructions concerning his bones .
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23By an act of faith, Moses' parents hid him away for three months after his birth. They saw the child's beauty, and they braved the king's decree.
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23By faith Moses, after his birth, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful and divinely favored child; and they were not afraid of the king's (Pharaoh's) decree.
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24By faith, Moses, when grown, refused the privileges of the Egyptian royal house.
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24By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
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25He chose a hard life with God's people rather than an opportunistic soft life of sin with the oppressors.
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25because he preferred to endure the hardship of the people of God rather than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.
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26He valued suffering in the Messiah's camp far greater than Egyptian wealth because he was looking ahead, anticipating the payoff.
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26He considered the reproach of the Christ to be greater wealth than all the treasures of Egypt; for he looked ahead to the reward .
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27By an act of faith, he turned his heel on Egypt, indifferent to the king's blind rage. He had his eye on the One no eye can see, and kept right on going.
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27By faith he left Egypt, being unafraid of the wrath of the king; for he endured , as seeing Him who is unseen.
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28By an act of faith, he kept the Passover Feast and sprinkled Passover blood on each house so that the destroyer of the firstborn wouldn't touch them.
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28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood , so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch them (the firstborn of Israel).
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29By an act of faith, Israel walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. The Egyptians tried it and drowned.
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29By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as though they were passing through dry land; but when the Egyptians attempted it they were drowned.
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30By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, and the walls fell flat.
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30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days .
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31By an act of faith, Rahab, the Jericho harlot, welcomed the spies and escaped the destruction that came on those who refused to trust God.
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31By faith Rahab the prostitute was not destroyed along with those who were disobedient, because she had welcomed the spies in peace.
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32I could go on and on, but I've run out of time. There are so many more—Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets... .
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32And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,
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33Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions,
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33who by faith subdued kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promised blessings, closed the mouths of lions,
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34fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies.
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34extinguished the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became mighty and unbeatable in battle, putting enemy forces to flight.
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35Women received their loved ones back from the dead. There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something better: resurrection.
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35Women received back their dead by resurrection; and others were tortured , refusing to accept release , so that they would be resurrected to a better life;
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36Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and dungeons.
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36and others experienced the trial of mocking and scourging , and even chains and imprisonment.
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37We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood; stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless—
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37They were stoned , they were sawn in two, they were lured with tempting offers , they were put to death by the sword; they went about wrapped in the skins of sheep and goats, utterly destitute, oppressed, cruelly treated
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38the world didn't deserve them!—making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world.
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38(people of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.
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39Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised.
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39And all of these, though they gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised,
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40God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours.
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40because God had us in mind and had something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect apart from us.