Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the confident expectation of things hoped for, and a conviction of things not seen:
1770 John Worsley NT
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 ancients obtained an honorable testimony.
Cross References
Romans 8:24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen, is not hope; for what any one sees, how doth he yet hope for?
2 Corinthians 4:18for those, which are visible, are temporary, but the invisible are eternal.
2 Corinthians 5:17And therefore if any one be in Christ, he is created anew: old things are passed away, behold all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 11:17What I speak I speak not as from the Lord, but as in weakness, in this confidence of boasting.
Titus 1:1Paul a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for promoting the faith of God's chosen people, 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 →