Hebrews 11:7 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

BSB

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ASV

By faith Noah, being warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

KJV

By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

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Commentary

5 voices

Tertullian

An Answer to the Jews (220)

For what wonder if He extends a discipline who institutes it? if He advances who begins? In short, before the Law of Moses, written in stone-tables, I contend that there was a law unwritten, which was habitually understood naturally, and by the fathers was habitually kept. For whence was Noah "found righteous," if in his case the righteousness of a natural law had not preceded? Whence was Abraham accounted "a friend of God," if not on the ground of equity and righteousness, (in the observance) of a natural law?

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

By faith Noah, being warned of God,.... In the Greek text, Noah is called "Noe", and so the Septuagint interpreters of the Old Testament call him; but Josephus calls him "Noeos": or "having received an oracle from God"; in which he was admonished, how to make an ark, as Moses was, in like manner, how to make a tabernacle, Heb 8:

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(3.) Hereby he became an heir of the righteousness which is by faith. [1.] He was possessed of a true justifying righteousness; he was heir to it: and, [2.] This his right of inheritance was through faith in Christ, as a member of Christ, a child of God, and, if a child, then an heir.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2147: “Noah's Faith, Fear, Obedience, and Salvation” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1890)

THE APOSTLE COULD NOT AVOID mentioning Noah; for in him faith shone forth eminently. He has placed him in due order of time after Abel and Enoch; but he had also another reason for the arrangement. These three ancient believers are declared in Holy Writ to have pleased God. Of Abel, it is said that God testified of his gifts. Enoch, before his translation, had this testimony, that he pleased God: and Noah "found grace in the eyes of the Lord."

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

27 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Πίστει	Pistei	By faith	G4102 →
χρηματισθεὶς	chrēmatistheis	having been divinely instructed	G5537 →
Νῶε	Nōe	Noah	G3575 →
περὶ	peri	concerning	G4012 →
τῶν	tōn	the [things]	G3588 →
μηδέπω	mēdepō	not yet	G3369 →
βλεπομένων	blepomenōn	seen	G991 →
εὐλαβηθεὶς	eulabētheis	having been moved with fear	G2125 →
κατεσκεύασεν	kateskeuasen	he prepared	G2680 →
κιβωτὸν	kibōton	an ark	G2787 →
εἰς	eis	for	G1519 →
σωτηρίαν	sōtērian	[the] salvation	G4991 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
οἴκου	oikou	household	G3624 →
αὐτοῦ,	autou	of him,	G846 →
δι᾽	di᾽	through	G1223 →
ἧς	hēs	which	G3739 →
κατέκρινεν	katekrinen	he condemned	G2632 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
κόσμον	kosmon	world	G2889 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
κατὰ	kata	according to	G2596 →
πίστιν	pistin	faith	G4102 →
δικαιοσύνης	dikaiosunēs	righteousness [that is]	G1343 →
ἐγένετο	egeneto	he became	G1096 →
κληρονόμος.¶	klēronomos	heir.	G2818 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 4:13
For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
leads to
- Galatians 3:29
  And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.
- Genesis 28:14
  Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through…
- Romans 9:8
  So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.
- Genesis 22:17–18
  I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
- Psalms 2:8
  Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
Through
Ezekiel 14:14
then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.
leads to
- Jeremiah 15:1
  Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.
- Ezekiel 14:20
  then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.
- Ezekiel 28:3
  Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!