Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 testimony.
Cross References
Psalms 42:11Whilst my bones are broken, my enemies who trouble me have reproached me; Whilst they say to me day be day : Where is thy God?
Romans 8:24For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen, is not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth he hope for?
2 Corinthians 4:18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen, are temporal; but the things which are not seen, are eternal.
2 Corinthians 5:17If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away, behold all things are made new.
2 Corinthians 11:17That which I speak, I speak not according to God, but as it were in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.
Titus 1:1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God and the acknowledging 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 →