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Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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1 Nephi 3 — I Will Go and Do — Casting Lots, Failed Strategies, and the Sacred Archive
1 Nephi 6 — The Editorial Manifesto and the Curated Word
1 Nephi 9 — The Two Plates and the Wise Purpose I Know Not
1 Nephi 10 — The Coming Messiah, the Olive Tree in Seed, and the Doctrine of Personal Revelation
1 Nephi 19 — Zenock, Neum, Zenos, and the Hermeneutic of 'Liken'
1 Nephi 22 — Nephi's Exposition — The Scattering, the Gentile Nursing, and the Mighty One of Israel
2 Nephi 6 — Jacob Opens the Temple Sermon — Isaiah 49 Re-Read for the New World
2 Nephi 11 — My Soul Delighteth — Nephi's Preface to the Isaiah Block
2 Nephi 25 — Nephi's Exposition — The Plainness, Six Hundred Years, the Name of Christ, and Grace After All We Can Do
Alma 8 — The Angel Returns — Alma Cast Out of Ammonihah and Sent Back with a Second Witness
Alma 16 — The Desolation of Nehors — Ammonihah Destroyed in a Day, the Zoram Rescue at Sidon, and the Many Things That Looked Forth for the Coming of Christ
Alma 19 — The Light of the Everlasting Life Was Lit Up in His Soul — The Queen's Greater Faith, Abish the Long-Hidden Witness, and the Conversion of Lamoni's Household
Alma 32 — The Experiment Upon the Word — Faith as a Seed, and the Blessedness of the Poor Who Were Cast Out
Alma 33 — Then Cast About Your Eyes — Zenos, Zenock, and the Brazen Serpent, or How to Plant the Seed
Alma 45 — Taken Up, Even as Moses — Alma's Last Prophecy and Helaman's Charge
Enos 1 — Enos's Wrestle — The Hunt That Became a Prayer, Intercession for Brethren and Enemies, the Promise of Preservation
Ether 3 — He Could Not Be Kept From Within the Veil — The Sixteen Stones, the Finger of the Lord, and the Unveiling of Christ
Ether 12 — My Grace Is Sufficient — Moroni on Faith, and the Weak Things Made Strong
Ether 13 — A New Jerusalem Upon This Land — Ether's Prophecy of the Holy City, and the War That Would Not End
Helaman 8 — Look and Live — The Cloud of Witnesses and the Murdered Judge
Jacob 4 — Looking Beyond the Mark — Jacob's Meditation on Christ, Scripture, and the Jewish Stumble
Jacob 5 — The Allegory of the Olive Tree — Zenos on the Lord's Vineyard, the Wild Branches, and the Final Harvest
Jacob 7 — Sherem the Anti-Christ — Jacob's Final Confrontation, the Sign Demanded, and the Wandering People
Jarom 1 — Jarom — A Short Book on Purpose: Keeping the Law of Moses While Looking Forward to Christ, and the Prophets Who Kept a Hard People Alive
Moroni 7 — Charity Is the Pure Love of Christ — Mormon's Sermon on Faith, Hope, and Charity
Moroni 10 — Come unto Christ, and Be Perfected in Him — Moroni's Promise, and the Last Words of the Book of Mormon
Mosiah 4 — Fallen as Dead — The Cry for Mercy, Retaining a Remission, Are We Not All Beggars, and Watch Yourselves
Mosiah 7 — Ammon Finds the Lost Colony — The Bondage Pattern, the Slain Prophet, and the First Pre-Christian Christology Outside Benjamin
Mosiah 9 — Zeniff's Confession — Over-Zealous to Inherit, Snared by a Cunning King, Delivered by the God Who Hears
Mosiah 10 — The Tradition of the Fathers — A Wrong That Is Taught, A Hatred That Is Inherited, A Deliverance That Comes by Remembrance
Mosiah 15 — God Himself Shall Come Down — Abinadi's Father-Son Christology, the Seed of the Servant, and Beautiful Feet Restored
Mosiah 16 — The Light That Cannot Be Darkened — Abinadi's Closing Sermon on Carnal Death, the Light of Endless Life, and the Law That Points Beyond Itself
Mosiah 17 — Abinadi Sealed by Fire — Alma Believes, the Word Is Hidden Away, the Prophet Dies as the Type He Named Himself to Be
Mosiah 19 — Noah Burned With Fire — Abinadi's Prophecy Fulfilled, the Colony's Tribute Begins, and the Priests Vanish into the Wilderness
Mosiah 23 — Alma's People in Helam — The Refused Kingship, the Liberty Doctrine, the Land Beautiful, the Amulonites Discovered, and the Lord Chasteneth Those Whom He Loveth
Mosiah 28 — The Sons of Mosiah Depart for the Lamanites — They Could Not Bear That Any Soul Should Perish, Mosiah Translates the Jaredite Plates by the Interpreters, the Office of the Seer Defined
Omni 1 — Omni — Five Voices on a Closing Plate, Mosiah's Flight to Zarahemla, the Mulekites Found, and the Stone of Coriantumr
Words of Mormon 1 — Words of Mormon — The Editor's Seam, the Wise Purpose, and the Providence That Reaches Across Centuries
Doctrine and Covenants 8 — In Your Mind and in Your Heart
Doctrine and Covenants 45 — Stand in Holy Places
Doctrine and Covenants 103 — The Redemption of Zion by Power
Doctrine and Covenants 128 — They Without Us Cannot Be Made Perfect
2 Kings 2 — The Chariot of Fire and the Fallen Mantle — Elijah's Last Walk, the Double Portion, the Whirlwind into Heaven, and the Salt in a New Cruse
2 Kings 3 — Ditches Before the Rain — Three Kings in a Waterless Wilderness, the Minstrel Who Made Room for the Word, Water Without a Storm, and the Fire on Moab's Wall
2 Kings 21 — The Wiped Dish and the Untold Prayer — Manasseh Unbuilds His Father's Reformation, Fills Jerusalem with Innocent Blood, Hears the Sentence That Dooms the Kingdom, and Finds a Mercy the Book of Kings Never Mentions
Genesis 1 — The Beginning That Explains Everything — God Creates the Heaven and the Earth, the Spirit Broods on the Deep, the Divine Council Says Let Us, and Man Is Made in the Image of God
Genesis 4 — Two Brothers and One Altar — the First Offering Accepted and Refused, Sin Crouching at the Door, the Blood That Cries from the Ground, and the Seed Appointed Instead of Abel
Genesis 5 — The Book of the Generations of Adam — the Likeness Handed Down, the Drumbeat of the Dying, the One Who Walked and Was Not, and the Son Named for Comfort
Job 38 — Out of the Whirlwind — The LORD Answers Job Not with a Why but with a Who
Abraham 4 — The Gods Organized — the Council Creation, and 'Watched Until They Were Obeyed'
Moses 1 — The Visions of Moses — Endless, the Only Begotten, the Confrontation with Satan, and the Work and the Glory
Moses 5 — The Similitude of the Sacrifice — Adam's Altar, Eve's Joy, and the First Master Mahan
Moses 7 — How Is It That Thou Canst Weep? — Enoch, Zion, and the God Who Mourns
Moses 8 — Sons of God, Daughters of Men, and the Grief Before the Flood — Methuselah, Noah, and the End of an Age

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via openbible.info (CC BY) and from this project’s own chapter essays. Read Hebrews 11:13 in context.