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Hebrews 11:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Hebrews 11:1-3
New Catholic Bible
The People of Faith[a]
Chapter 11
What Faith Is. 1 Faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the conviction about things that cannot be seen.[b] 2 Indeed, it was because of it that our ancestors were commended.
3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen came into being from the invisible.
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- Hebrews 11:1 Before exhorting his readers to serve Christ, the author shows the importance and power of faith throughout sacred history. This is a magnificent chapter of Biblical theology that should inspire the courage of believers and urge them to read the Old Testament in order to give new vigor to the impulse of faith.
- Hebrews 11:1 Theologians have often cited this sentence. Faith establishes human beings in the invisible and orients them toward the future, toward the fulfillment. The spiritual writer Charles Péguy affirmed: “The faith that I love most, says God, is hope.”
