Hebrews 11:1 (BSB)

Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.

From Hebrews 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Hebrews 11:1

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Hebrews 11:1: 1. Now faith, etc. Whoever made this the beginning of the eleventh chapter, has unwisely disjointed the context; for the object of the Apostle was to prove what he had already said ­that there is need of patience. Griesbach makes the division at the thirty-eighth verse of the last chapter, and this is no doubt what the subject requires. — Ed.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Hebrews 11:1-3: Here we have, I. A definition or description of the grace of faith in two parts. 1. It is the substance of things hoped for. Faith and hope go together; and the same things that are the object of our hope are the object of our faith.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Hebrews 11:1: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,.... The "faith" here spoken of is not a mere moral virtue, which is a branch of the law; nor a bare assent to anything revealed, declared, and affirmed in the Gospel; nor a faith of doing miracles; nor an implicit one; nor a mere profession of faith, which sometimes is but temporary; nor the word or...
• Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Hebrews 11:1: CHAPTER XI. ANALYSIS OF THE CHAPTER. In the close of the previous chapter the apostle had incidentally made mention of faith, , and said that the just should live by faith. The object of the whole argument in this epistle was to keep those to whom it was addressed from apostatizing, from the Christian religion, and especially from relapsing again into Judaism.