⁶ But the righteousness which is of faith says these words, Say not in your heart, Who will go up to heaven? (that is, to make Christ come down:)

⁸ For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men.

⁹ (Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth?

¹⁰ He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.)

¹¹ For these orders which I have given you today are not strange and secret, and are not far away.

¹² They are not in heaven, for you to say, Who will go up to heaven for us and give us knowledge of them so that we may do them?

¹³ And they are not across the sea, for you to say, Who will go over the sea for us and give us news of them so that we may do them?

¹⁴ But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may do it.

⁷ By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.

³ Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;

⁹ And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

³⁰ What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

³¹ But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

¹³ For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

²⁵ Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

²² That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,

⁵⁸ This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

³⁸ For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.

³³ The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

¹² If you have no belief when my words are about the things of earth, how will you have belief if my words are about the things of heaven?

¹³ And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.

⁴ Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

⁵⁰ The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.

⁵¹ I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.