Hebrews 11:1
NOW faith is the realizing confidence of the things hoped for, and the demonstration of things unseen:
Thomas Haweis 1795 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 thereby the ancients obtained a testimony of approbation.
Cross References
Romans 8:24For by hope we have been saved: now hope seen is not hope; for that which any man seeth how doth he yet hope for?
2 Corinthians 4:18whilst we direct our aim not to the things which are seen, but to the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporary, but the things that are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 5:17Wherefore if any person be in Christ, he is a new creation: the old things are passed away; behold, all things are 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 Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God, and the knowledge of truth which leads 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 →