These all died in faith, although they had not received the things that were promised. But they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going.
From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way.
‘If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters #– #yes, and even his own life #– #he cannot be my disciple.
The descendants of the Kenite, Moses’s father-in-law, had gone up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms , to the Wilderness of Judah, which was in the Negev of Arad. They went to live among the people.