^{11 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country;

^{15 Ref} and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,

^{16 Ref} 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 Ref} By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

^{18 Ref} of whom it was said -- `In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

^{19 Ref} reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive `him'.