Hebrews 11
1 It is because people trust [God] that they are sure that they will receive the things that they confidently expect [God to give them]. They are also certain [that they will see those things], though no one sees them yet.
Es ist aber der Glaube eine gewisse Zuversicht des, das man hoffet, und nicht zweifeln an dem, das man nicht siehet.
2 It was because our ancestors trusted in God that they pleased him.
Durch den haben die Alten Zeugnis überkommen.
3 It is because we trust in God that we understand that he formed the universe by commanding [it to exist]. The result is that the things that we see were not made from things that already existed. (aiōn g165)
Durch den Glauben merken wir, daß die Welt durch Gottes Wort fertig ist, daß alles, was man siehet, aus nichts worden ist. (aiōn g165)
4 It was because [Adam’s son] Abel trusted God that he sacrificed something better to God than what [his older brother] Cain offered to God. Because Abel did that, when God spoke well about what Abel sacrificed, God declared that Abel was righteous. And although Abel is dead, we still learn from him [about trusting God].
Durch den Glauben hat Abel Gott ein größer Opfer getan denn Kain, durch welchen er Zeugnis überkommen hat, daß er gerecht sei, da Gott zeugete von seiner Gabe; und durch denselbigen redet er noch, wiewohl er gestorben ist.
5 It was because Enoch believed [God that God] took him [up to heaven]. The result was that he did not die. No one found him, because he was taken up {[God] had removed him} from the earth [to heaven]. Before [God] took him away, [he] testified that Enoch pleased him well.
Durch den Glauben ward Enoch weggenommen, daß er den Tod nicht sähe, und ward nicht gefunden, darum daß ihn Gott wegnahm; denn vor seinem Wegnehmen hat er Zeugnis gehabt, daß er Gott gefallen habe.
6 It is possible for people to please God only if they trust God, because anyone who wants to come to God must first believe that God exists and that he rewards those who seek [to know] him.
Aber ohne Glauben ist's unmöglich, Gott gefallen; denn wer zu Gott kommen will, der muß glauben, daß er sei und denen, die ihn suchen, ein Vergelter sein werde.
7 It was because Noah trusted [God] that after he was warned by God {after [God] warned him} about [a flood that] had not yet happened, Noah [showed that he] revered God by building a huge ship to save his family. By doing that, he [showed all the people who did not believe him] [MTY] [that they deserved to be condemned] {[that God would] condemn them}. He was someone whom God declared to be righteous because of his trusting in God.
Durch den Glauben hat Noah Gott geehret und die Arche zubereitet zum Heil seines Hauses, da er einen göttlichen Befehl empfing von dem das man noch nicht sah; durch welchen er verdammte die Welt und hat ererbet die Gerechtigkeit, die durch den Glauben kommt.
8 It was because Abraham trusted God that when he was told to go {when [God] told him to go}, he obeyed [God], he left [his own country], and went to a place that God would give him. Abraham left his own country, even though he did not know where he would be going.
Durch den Glauben ward gehorsam Abraham, da er berufen ward, auszugehen in das Land, das er ererben sollte; und ging aus und wußte nicht, wo er hinkäme.
9 It was because Abraham trusted God that he lived as though he was a foreigner in the land that [God] had promised to him. Abraham lived in tents, and his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob did also. God promised to give to Isaac and Jacob the same things that he promised to give Abraham.
Durch den Glauben ist er ein Fremdling gewesen in dem verheißenen Lande als in einem fremden und wohnete in Hütten mit Isaak und Jakob, den Miterben derselbigen Verheißung.
10 Abraham was waiting to live in a city [in heaven] that would exist forever [MET]. It was a city that God is building [DOU].
Denn er wartete auf eine Stadt, die einen Grund hat, welcher Baumeister und Schöpfer Gott ist.
11 It was because Abraham trusted God that God gave Abraham strength so that he [was] able to produce a son. Even though his wife Sarah was past the age [when women bear children], [God] promised [that he would give her a son], and Abraham considered that God would do what he promised to do.
Durch den Glauben empfing auch Sara Kraft, daß sie schwanger ward, und gebar über die Zeit ihres Alters; denn sie achtete ihn treu, der es verheißen hatte.
12 So, although Abraham was also too old to have children, so many people descended from that one man that they were as numerous as the stars in the sky and are as countless as the grains of sand along the seashore, [just like God promised him].
Darum sind auch von einem, wie wohl erstorbenen Leibes, viele geboren wie die Sterne am Himmel und wie der Sand am Rande des Meeres, der unzählig ist.
13 It was while they still trusted in God that all those people died. Even though they had not yet received the things that God had promised to give them, [it was as though] they saw those things in a distance. They were glad [to know] about what God promised. It was as though they admitted that they were not from this earth, but that they were only here temporarily.
Diese alle sind gestorben im Glauben und haben die Verheißung nicht empfangen, sondern sie von ferne gesehen und sich der vertröstet und wohl genügen lassen und bekannt, daß sie Gäste und Fremdlinge auf Erden sind.
14 As for those people who talk like that, they clearly show that they long for [a place that will become] their true native land.
Denn die solches sagen, die geben zu verstehen, daß sie ein Vaterland suchen.
15 If they had been thinking about [that place being] the place from which they had come, they would have taken the opportunity to return there.
Und zwar, wo sie das gemeinet hätten, von welchem sie waren ausgezogen, hatten sie ja Zeit, wieder umzukehren.
16 But, instead, they desired a better [place in which to live]; that is, they desired [a home] in heaven. So God has prepared a city for them to live [with him], and he is pleased [LIT] for them to say that he is their God.
Nun aber begehren sie eines besseren, nämlich eines himmlischen. Darum schämet sich Gott ihrer nicht, zu heißen ihr Gott; denn er hat ihnen eine Stadt zubereitet.
17 It was because Abraham trusted [God] that he [was ready to] kill his son Isaac as a sacrifice when [God] tested him. This same man to whom [God] promised [to give] ([a son/many descendants]) was going to sacrifice [that same son], the only son [whom his own wife had borne]!
Durch den Glauben opferte Abraham den Isaak, da er versucht ward, und gab dahin den Eingebornen, da er schon die Verheißung empfangen hatte,
18 It was to Abraham that God said, “It is [only] from Isaac that I will consider your family to descend.”
von welchem gesagt war: In Isaak wird dir dein Same geheißen werden,
19 Abraham considered that [to fulfill that promise], God could make [Isaac] live again [even if] he had died [after Abraham sacrificed him]! The result was that when Abraham did receive Isaac back [after God told him not to harm Isaac], it was as though he received him back even after he died.
und dachte: Gott kann auch wohl von den Toten erwecken; daher er auch ihn zum Vorbilde wieder nahm.
20 It was because Isaac trusted God that he [prayed that after he died, God would] bless [his] sons Jacob and Esau.
Durch den Glauben segnete Isaak von den zukünftigen Dingen den Jakob und Esau.
21 It was because Jacob trusted God that, as he was dying, he [prayed that God would] bless each of the sons of [his own son Joseph]. He worshipped God as he leaned upon his walking stick [before he died].
Durch den Glauben segnete Jakob, da er starb, beide Söhne Josephs und neigete sich gegen seines Zepters Spitze.
22 It was because Joseph trusted God that, when he was about to die [in Egypt], he anticipated the time when the Israelis would leave Egypt; and he instructed [that] his people [should carry] his bones [with them when they] ([left Egypt/returned to Canaan]).
Durch den Glauben redete Joseph vom Auszug der Kinder Israel, da er starb, und tat Befehl von seinen Gebeinen.
23 It was because Moses’ father and mother trusted God that they hid [their son] for three months shortly after he was born, because they saw that he was so beautiful. They were not afraid of [disobeying] what the king of Egypt had commanded, [namely, that all the Jewish male babies must be killed].
Durch den Glauben ward Mose, da er geboren war, drei Monden verborgen von seinen Eltern, darum daß sie sahen, wie er ein schön Kind war, und fürchteten sich nicht vor des Königs Gebot.
24 The daughter of the [king, whom they called] Pharaoh, [raised] Moses, but when he had grown up, it was because he trusted God that he refused to [accept the privileges that would have been his if people] considered that he was (the son of the king’s daughter/the king’s own grandson).
Durch den Glauben wollte Mose, da er groß ward, nicht mehr ein Sohn heißen der Tochter Pharaos
25 He decided that it was better for others to mistreat him for a time along with the Israeli people, than to temporarily enjoy living sinfully [in the King’s palace].
und erwählete viel lieber, mit dem Volk Gottes Ungemach zu leiden, denn die zeitliche Ergötzung der Sünde zu haben,
26 This is because he decided that if he suffered for the Messiah, it would be worth far more [in God’s sight] than his owning all the treasures of Egypt [that he would receive as Pharaoh’s heir. He decided that] because he looked forward to the time when [God would give him] an [eternal] reward.
und achtete die Schmach Christi für größeren Reichtum denn die Schätze Ägyptens; denn er sah an die Belohnung.
27 It was because he trusted God that he left Egypt. He was not afraid that the king would be angry [because of his doing that]. He (kept going/did not turn back) because [it was as though] he kept seeing [God], whom no one can see.
Durch den Glauben verließ er Ägypten und fürchtete nicht des Königs Grimm; denn er hielt sich an den, den er nicht sah, als sähe er ihn.
28 It was because Moses believed [that God would save his own people] that he instituted the [festival called] Passover. He did that [by commanding that the people should kill lambs and] sprinkle their blood [on their] doorposts. They did that in order that [the angel who] causes people to die would not kill [EUP] the oldest male Israelites [when he killed the oldest sons in each Egyptian family].
Durch den Glauben hielt er Ostern und das Blutvergießen, auf daß, der die Erstgeburten würgete, sie nicht träfe.
29 It was because they trusted God that [when] the [Israelite] people walked through [where] the Red Sea [had been, it was] as [though they walked] on dry land! But, when the [army of] Egypt also attempted to [cross that same water], they drowned, because [the sea came back and flooded them]!
Durch den Glauben gingen sie durch das Rote Meer als durch trocken Land; welches die Ägypter auch versuchten und ersoffen.
30 It was because the [Israeli] people trusted God that the walls around Jericho [city] collapsed, after the Israelis marched around the walls for seven days.
Durch den Glauben fielen die Mauern Jerichos, da sie sieben Tage umhergegangen waren.
31 Rahab [had been] a prostitute, but because she trusted God, she did not perish with those [inside Jericho] who disobeyed [God. Joshua sent some spies] into the city [in order] to find ways to destroy it, but God saved her because she welcomed those spies [peaceably].
Durch den Glauben ward die Hure Rahab nicht verloren mit den Ungläubigen, da sie die Kundschafter freundlich aufnahm.
32 I do not know what more I should say [RHQ] [about others who trusted in God]. It would take too much time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the [other] prophets.
Und was soll ich mehr sagen? Die Zeit würde mir zu kurz, wenn ich sollte erzählen von Gideon und Barak und Simson und Jephthah und David und Samuel und den Propheten,
33 It was because they trusted God that some of them [did great things for him]. Some conquered lands ruled by powerful men. Some ruled [Israel] and justly [punished those men and nations who rebelled against God]. Some obtained [from God] the things that he promised to give them [MTY].
welche haben durch den Glauben Königreiche bezwungen, Gerechtigkeit gewirket, die Verheißung erlanget, der Löwen Rachen verstopfet,
34 Some forced lions to keep their mouths shut. Some escaped from being destroyed by fire. Some of those people escaped from [being killed with] a sword [MTY]. Some of those [people who trusted God] were made strong {became mighty} again after they had once been weak. Some became powerful when they fought wars. Some caused armies [that came from foreign lands] to run away from them.
des Feuers Kraft ausgelöscht, sind des Schwerts Schärfe entronnen, sind kräftig worden aus der Schwachheit, sind stark worden im Streit, haben der Fremden Heer daniedergelegt.
35 Some women [who trusted God] received [their relatives] back again when [God] ([made them live again after they had died/raised them from the dead]). But [others who trusted God] were tortured until they died. They were tortured because they refused to agree when [their captors said, “We will] release you [if you deny that you believe in God.” They refused to do that], because they wanted to live with God forever, which is better than [continuing to live on earth] after having almost died.
Die Weiber haben ihre Toten von der Auferstehung wieder genommen; die andern aber sind zerschlagen und haben keine Erlösung angenommen, auf daß sie die Auferstehung, die besser ist, erlangeten.
36 Other [people who trusted God] were mocked; [some had their backs] cut [open by being struck] with leaded whips. Some were chained and put in prison.
Etliche haben Spott und Geißeln erlitten, dazu Bande und Gefängnis.
37 [Some of] those believers were stoned to death {People [killed some of those believers by] throwing stones at them}. Others were cut completely in two. Others were killed with swords. Others of these people who trusted God wandered around the land [wearing garments made only of] skins from sheep and goats. They did not have any money. They were continually oppressed and tormented {People continuously oppressed them and tormented them}.
Sie sind gesteiniget, zerhackt, zerstochen, durchs Schwert getötet; sie sind umhergegangen in Pelzen und Ziegenfellen, mit Mangel, mit Trübsal, mit Ungemach
38 [The people on earth who caused those who trusted in God to suffer were so bad that] they did not deserve [to live with people who trusted God. Some who trusted God] wandered in deserts and on mountains. Some lived in caves and in other [large] holes in the ground.
(deren die Welt nicht wert war) und sind im Elend gegangen in den Wüsten, auf den Bergen und in den Klüften und Löchern der Erde.
39 Although all these people were commended [by God] {[God] commended all these people} because they trusted him, God did not give them all that he promised them [while they were alive].
Diese alle haben durch den Glauben Zeugnis überkommen und nicht empfangen die Verheißung,
40 God knew ahead of time that what he would give us and them [later] would be better than giving [them immediately what he promised]. What God intends is that only when they and we are together will we have all that God intends us to have.
darum daß Gott etwas Besseres für uns zuvor versehen hat, daß sie nicht ohne uns vollendet würden.
