Great Examples of Faith

11 Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see.

⁷ For we live by believing and not by seeing.

¹⁸ So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

²⁴ We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope^[a] for it. ²⁵ But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)

⁷ It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before. By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world, and he received the righteousness that comes by faith.