Hebrews 11:19
Accounting that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Whereupon also he received him for a parable.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
18(To whom it was said: In Isaac shall thy seed be called.)
20By faith also of things to come, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.
Cross References
Genesis 22:13Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram amongst the briers sticking fast by the horns, which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son.
Romans 4:17(As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations,) before God, whom he believed, who quickeneth the dead; and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.
Ephesians 3:20Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us;
Hebrews 11:11By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age; because she believed that he was faithful who had 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 →