- By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son,
- even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned."
- Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.
- By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.
- By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.
- By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones.
- By faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.
- By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
- He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
- He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.
- By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible.
- By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.
- By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.
- By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days.
- By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.
