Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
In Context
2For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Cross References
Psalms 42:11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, Him, my deliverer and my God!
Romans 8:24For we were saved only in hope. But hope which is seen is not hope; how can a man hope for that which he seeth?
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 but for a time; but the things which are not seen are ever lasting.
2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
2 Corinthians 11:17What I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as it were in folly, in this confidence of boasting.
Titus 1:1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Christ Jesus, for the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge 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 →