Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Hebrews 11:1 is verse of the day number 344 of 366 on Lampfold, under the theme “What faith is”. It comes from Hebrews 11, and 10 other passages connected to it are listed below.
Hebrews 11:1 in other translations
Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Hebrews 11:1 in context
Hebrews 11:1–4 (KJV). The verse of the day is highlighted.
1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
4By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Cross-references for Hebrews 11:1
Passages most often linked to Hebrews 11:1, strongest connections first.
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
While 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.
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
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