1 And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, 2 for in this were the elders testified of; 3 by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing; 4 by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak. 5 By faith Enoch was translated — not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to — that he had pleased God well, 6 and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder. 7 By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir. 8 By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go; 9 by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise, 10 for he was looking for the city having the foundations, whose artificer and constructor [is] God. 11 By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise; 12 wherefore, also from one were begotten — and that of one who had become dead — as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that [is] by the sea-shore — the innumerable. 13 In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted [them], and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth, 14 for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country; 15 and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return, 16 but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city. 17 By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises, 18 of whom it was said — 'In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;' 19 reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive [him]. 20 By faith, concerning coming things, Isaac did bless Jacob and Esau; 21◆ by faith Jacob dying — each of the sons of Joseph did bless, and did bow down upon the top of his staff; 22 by faith, Joseph dying, concerning the outgoing of the sons of Israel did make mention, and concerning his bones did give command. 23 By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king; 24 by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh, 25 having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season, 26 greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward; 27 by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One — he endured; 28 by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them. 29 By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up; 30 by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days; 31 by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace. 32 And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets, 33 who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens. 35 Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive, 36 and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment; 37 they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins — being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated, 38 of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and [in] mountains, and [in] caves, and [in] the holes of the earth; 39 and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise, 40 God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.
Hebreos · Traducción literal de Young
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Personas y lugares de este capítulo
Del árbol genealógico y los mapas bíblicos de este sitio (en inglés), solo donde esas guías citan este capítulo.
Personas
Abel
A shepherd whose faithful offering pleased God, murdered by his own brother.
Citado en la guía: Genesis 4; Hebrews 11:4
Enoch
He walked with God, and was not, for God took him — he did not die.
Citado en la guía: Genesis 5:21–24; Hebrews 11:5
Rahab
The woman of Jericho who hid the spies and became mother of Boaz.
Citado en la guía: Joshua 2, 6; Matthew 1:5; Hebrews 11:31
Referencias cruzadas (40)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Corintios 5:7; 2 Corintios 4:18; Romanos 8:24–25; Hebreos 11:7; Hebreos 10:22
- 2 Hebreos 11:39; Hebreos 11:4
- 3 Salmo 33:6; 2 Pedro 3:5; Juan 1:3; Romanos 4:17; Hechos 17:24
- 4 Génesis 4:3–5; 1 Juan 3:11–12; Hebreos 12:24; Proverbios 15:8; Génesis 4:10
- 5 Génesis 5:21–24; Judas 14; Hebreos 11:6; 2 Reyes 2:11; Apocalipsis 11:9–12
- 6 Proverbios 8:17; Jeremías 29:13–14; Mateo 6:33; 1 Crónicas 28:9; Salmo 105:3–4
- 7 Génesis 6:13–7:1; 1 Pedro 3:20; Ezequiel 14:14; Lucas 17:26; Romanos 4:13
- 8 Génesis 12:1–4; Hechos 7:2–4; Mateo 7:24–25; Génesis 15:7–8; Génesis 22:18
- 9 Génesis 12:8; Génesis 13:18; Génesis 13:3; Hechos 7:5–6; Hebreos 6:17
- 10 Hebreos 13:14; Filipenses 3:20; 2 Corintios 5:1; Hebreos 12:22; Juan 14:2
- 11 Hebreos 10:23; Romanos 4:20–21; Génesis 18:11–14; Génesis 21:1–2; Lucas 1:36
- 12 Génesis 22:17; Génesis 32:12; Oseas 1:10; Génesis 15:5; Jeremías 33:22
- 13 Génesis 23:4; Salmo 39:12; Hebreos 11:27; Romanos 8:24; Hebreos 11:39
- 14 2 Corintios 4:18–5:7; Romanos 8:23–25; Hebreos 13:14; Hebreos 11:16; Filipenses 1:23
- 15 Génesis 24:6–8; Génesis 12:10
- 16 Hebreos 13:14; Filipenses 3:20; Hebreos 11:10; Mateo 25:34; Juan 14:2
- 17 Génesis 22:16; Santiago 2:21–24; Génesis 22:1–12; Santiago 5:11; 1 Pedro 1:6–7
- 18 Génesis 21:12; Romanos 9:7; Génesis 17:19
- 19 Romanos 4:17–21; Mateo 9:28; Efesios 3:20; Génesis 22:13; Génesis 22:4–5
- 20 Génesis 27:27–40; Génesis 28:2–3
- 21 Génesis 47:31–48:1; Génesis 48:5–22
- 22 Éxodo 13:19; Génesis 50:24–25; Josué 24:32; Hechos 7:16
- 23 Éxodo 1:22; Éxodo 1:16; Hebreos 13:6; Éxodo 2:2–10; Mateo 10:28
- 24 Éxodo 2:10–11; Hechos 7:21–24
- 25 Salmo 84:10; 2 Timoteo 2:3–10; Job 36:21; 1 Pedro 4:12–16; 2 Corintios 5:17
- 26 Hebreos 10:35; Hebreos 11:6; 1 Pedro 4:14; Mateo 5:12; 2 Corintios 6:10
- 27 2 Corintios 4:18; Hebreos 11:13; Éxodo 2:14–15; Hebreos 11:1; Éxodo 4:19
- 28 Éxodo 12:21–30; Hebreos 9:19; 1 Pedro 1:2; Hebreos 12:24; Éxodo 12:3–14
- 29 Éxodo 14:13–15:21; Salmo 106:9–11; Salmo 78:13; Habacuc 3:8–10; Isaías 63:11–16
- 30 Josué 6:3–20; 2 Corintios 10:4–5
- 31 Santiago 2:25; Josué 6:22–25; Mateo 1:5; Josué 2:1–24; Mateo 1:1
- 32 1 Samuel 16:1; 1 Samuel 1:20; 1 Samuel 16:13; Jueces 13:1–16; Jueces 11:1–12
- 33 Hebreos 6:12–15; Salmo 144:1–2; 2 Timoteo 4:17; Hebreos 10:36; Hebreos 11:4–8
- 34 1 Samuel 17:51–52; 2 Reyes 6:16–18; Salmo 144:10; Jueces 15:8; 2 Crónicas 32:20–22
- 35 2 Reyes 4:27–37; 1 Reyes 17:22–24; Filipenses 3:11; Hechos 9:41; 1 Corintios 15:54
- 36 Jeremías 20:2; Génesis 39:20; Jeremías 37:15–21; 2 Crónicas 30:10; 2 Crónicas 16:10
- 37 2 Crónicas 24:21; Jeremías 26:23; 1 Reyes 19:10; 1 Reyes 21:13–15; 2 Reyes 1:8
- 38 1 Reyes 18:4; 1 Samuel 22:1; 1 Reyes 19:9; Isaías 57:1; 1 Samuel 24:1–3
- 39 Lucas 10:23–24; Hebreos 11:13; Hebreos 11:2; 1 Pedro 1:12
- 40 Apocalipsis 6:11; Hebreos 8:6; Hebreos 10:11–14; Hebreos 5:9; Hebreos 7:19
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
¿Por qué mi Biblia dice algo distinto?
- Hebreos 11:21 y Génesis 47:31: ¿el bastón de Jacob o la cama de Jacob?
En el texto hebreo de Génesis 47:31, Israel se inclina «sobre la cabecera de la cama». En la Septuaginta se inclina «sobre la punta de su bastón», y Hebreos 11:21 cita el griego. Las consonantes hebreas pueden leerse de ambas maneras; solo las vocales, añadidas más tarde, deciden. La Iglesia ortodoxa lee «bastón», y san Juan Damasceno usó el versículo al defender la veneración de las cosas santas.
Lo que dijeron los Padres
Pasajes de los Padres de la Iglesia que comentan o citan este capítulo, tal como aparecen en la edición de Schaff (traducciones inglesas del siglo XIX, de dominio público). Los textos están en inglés.
Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
Faith needs a generous and vigorous soul, and one rising above all things of sense, and passing beyond the weakness of human reasonings. For it is not possible to become a believer, otherwise than by raising one's self above the common customs [of the world].
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 14 (1889)
Let us take (for instance) Enoch, who, being found righteous in obedience, was translated, and death was never known to happen to him. Noah, being found faithful, preached regeneration to the world through his ministry; and the Lord saved by him the animals which, with one accord, entered into the ark.
… those places and times--being itself the while the same always and everywhere, not one thing in one place, and another in another; according to which Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and Moses, and David, and all those commended by the mouth of God were righteous, but were judged unrighteous by foolish men, judging out of man's judgment, and gauging by …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… how he saith, "They that say these things, show plainly that they seek a country; and truly if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned: but now they desire another, a better country." And again, "These all died in faith, not having obtained the promises, but having seen …
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
The lesson also which was read to-day invites you to the true faith, by setting before you the way in which you also must please God: for it affirms that without faith it is impossible to please Him.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)