Hebrews 11:19
counting that God [was] able to raise [him] even from among [the] dead, whence also he received him in a figure.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
18as to whom it had been said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:
20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
Cross References
Genesis 22:13And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt-offering instead of his son.
Romans 4:17(according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;
Ephesians 3:20But to him that is able to do far exceedingly above all which we ask or think, according to the power which works in us,
Hebrews 11:11By faith also Sarah herself received strength for [the] conception of seed, and [that] beyond a seasonable age; since she counted him faithful who promised.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:5-32
Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that… Read the whole commentary →