Hebrews 6:1

6:1 Therefore we must progress beyond ¹  the elementary ²  instructions about Christ ³  and move on ⁴  to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

Hebrews 10:39

10:39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls. ⁵ 

Hebrews 11:3

11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds ⁶  were set in order at God’s command, ⁷  so that the visible has its origin in the invisible. ⁸ 

Hebrews 11:6

11:6 Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Hebrews 11:17

11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, ⁹  yet he was ready to offer up ¹⁰  his only son.

Hebrews 11:21-22

11:21 By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped as he leaned on his staff. ¹¹  11:22 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, ¹²  mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel ¹³  and gave instructions about his burial. ¹⁴ 

Hebrews 11:27-29

11:27 By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible. 11:28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, ¹⁵  so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them. 11:29 By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up.

Hebrews 13:7

13:7 Remember your leaders, who spoke God’s message to you; reflect on the outcome of their lives and imitate their faith.

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¹ tn Grk “Therefore leaving behind.” The implication is not of abandoning this elementary information, but of building on it.

² tn Or “basic.”

³ tn Grk “the message of the beginning of Christ.”

⁴ tn Grk “leaving behind…let us move on.”

⁵ tn Grk “not…of shrinking back to perdition but of faith to the preservation of the soul.”

⁶ tn Grk “ages.” The temporal (ages) came to be used of the spatial (what exists in those time periods). See Heb 1:2 for same usage.

⁷ tn Grk “by God’s word.”

⁸ sn The Greek phrasing emphasizes this point by negating the opposite: “so that what is seen did not come into being from things that are visible.”

⁹ tn Here “received the promises” refers to the pledges themselves, not to the things God promised.

¹⁰ tn Grk “he was offering up.” The tense of this verb indicates the attempt or readiness to sacrifice Isaac without the actual completion of the deed.

¹¹ tn Grk “worshiped on the top of his staff,” a quotation from Gen 47:31 (LXX).

¹² tn Grk “coming to an end,” “dying.”

¹³ sn Joseph’s prophecy about the exodus of the sons of Israel is found in Gen 50:24.

¹⁴ tn Grk “about his bones,” which refers by metonymy to the disposition of his bones, i.e., his burial.

sn The instructions about his burial are recorded in Gen 50:25.

¹⁵ tn Grk “the pouring out of the blood.”

sn The sprinkling of the blood refers here to the application of the blood to the doorways of the Israelite houses (cf. Exod 12:7, 13).