Hebrews 11:19
calculating that God was indeed able to raise him from the dead; from whence in fact he did receive him, figuratively speaking.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
18of whom it had been said, “Through Isaac will your seed be reckoned,”
20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
Cross References
Romans 4:17just as it is written: “I have made you a father of many ethnic nations” —in the presence of Him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead and calls the nonexistent things as though they did exist.
Ephesians 3:20Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to the power that is working in us,
Hebrews 11:11By faith Sarah herself also received power to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the normal age, since she judged Him 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 →