No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who...

Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of...

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? If you are not...

And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says, “My son, do not...

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.   Hebrews 12:4   Baseball used to be the...

Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.   Hebrews 12:3   I just don’t get...

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and...

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so...

These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us...

They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins,...

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might...

And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets,...

By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.   Hebrews 11:31   Now...

By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned. By faith the...

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover...

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with the...

By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid...

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future. By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and...

Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.   Hebrews 11:19...

By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and...