Chiasm
Hebrews 11:13–19
Hebrews 11:13–193 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 13 These all "died in faith"
- B 13 "not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."
- C 14 "For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country."
- D 15 "And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned."
- C' 16 "But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city."
- C 14 "For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country."
- B' 17 "By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,"
- B 13 "not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."
- A' 18-19 "Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure."
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