13. These all died in faith without receiving the things promised—but they saw them and welcomed them from afar, and they confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
14. For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
15. If indeed they had been thinking about where they had come from, they would have had opportunity to return.
16. But as it is, they yearn for a better land—that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
17. By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had received the promises was offering up his one and only son—
18. the one about whom it was said, “Through Isaac offspring shall be named for you.”