Hebrews 11:1“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
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Hebrews 11:1
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” — read online, free, in the King James Version.
The biblical definition of faith: “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
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What is faith according to Hebrews 11:1?
Hebrews defines faith as confident assurance about what is hoped for and conviction about what is unseen — then illustrates it with the long list of Old Testament believers that follows, from Abel to Rahab.
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This is the King James Version (1611) — the classic English translation, in the public domain and free to read and quote.
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