Hebrews 11:13 meaning and explanation
All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Hebrews 11:13, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
The writer to the Hebrews is addressing a congregation tempted to drift back to older ways, and here he summarizes the patriarchs and heroes named earlier in the chapter. Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Jacob all died without holding the promise in their hands.
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