Hebrews 11:1
Now, faith is a sure confidence with respect to things hoped for, a firm persuasion with respect to things not seen:
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
In Context
2for by this the ancients obtained a good reputation.
Cross References
Romans 8:24For we are saved by this hope; but hope that is seen is not hope; for, what any one sees, why does he also hope for it?
2 Corinthians 4:18while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things seen are temporal; but the things not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 5:17So, then, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
2 Corinthians 11:17What I say, I say not according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this same confidence of boasting.
Titus 1:1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledgement of the truth, which is according to godliness;
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:1
The apostle having, in the close of the foregoing chapter, recommended the grace of faith and a life of faith as the best preservative against apostasy, he how enlarges upon the nature and fruits of this excellent grace. I. The nature of it, and the honour it reflects upon all who live in the exercise of it, ver. 1-3 . II. The great examples we have in the Old Testament of those who lived by faith, and died and suffered extraordinary things by the strength of his grace, ver. 4-38 . And, III. The advantages that we… Read the whole commentary →