Hebrews 11:1
And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
In Context
2for in this were the elders testified of;
Cross References
Psalms 42:11What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!
Romans 8:24for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for [it]?
2 Corinthians 4:18we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen [are] temporary, but the things not seen [are] age-during.
2 Corinthians 5:17so that if any one [is] in Christ — [he is] a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.
2 Corinthians 11:17That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;
Titus 1:1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that [is] according to piety,
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 →