¹⁸ we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen `are' temporary, but the things not seen `are' age-during.

⁷ for through faith we walk, not through sight --

¹ And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

²⁴ for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for `it'?

²⁵ and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect `it'.

¹⁶ because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,

¹⁷ and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.

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,

²⁵ and this is the promise that He did promise us -- the life the age-during.

¹⁶ and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

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;

² looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

³ for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.