Hebreus 11:6

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:3-6

The Foundations of Faith In The Antedeluvian World (Hebrews 11:3-6 ). Faith is seen as giving us an understanding of the world as it is, and why it is as it is. Faith says it is like it is because God created it and is its invisible basis, and because God has revealed it to be so through His prophet. It also enables us to recognise that whether men die through persecution (Abel), or are translated without dying (Enoch), they share the same hope. Here the writer establishes the foundations. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:6

‘And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing to him; for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek after him.’ The introduction to the chapter and these examples bring out that without such faith we cannot please God. The one who comes to God must believe that He exists and is interested in those who are His, and must believe that He responds graciously to those who seek Him, because He has revealed it to be so. They must believe in... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 11:4-7

Hebrews 11:4-Judges : . Examples of faith from the primitive history, as given in the early chapters of Genesis.— Abel, on account of his faith, was not only accepted by God in his lifetime ( Genesis 4:4-Ruth :), but even after his death his blood made its appeal to God for vengeance on his murderer ( Genesis 4:10 *). Enoch passed into the other world without suffering death, and is commemorated in Scripture as the man who “ walked with God” ( Hebrews 11:5). Indeed there can be no religion... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 11:6

The Spirit here proveth that Enoch pleased God by faith, though it was not expressly written in his text by Moses, because of the impossibility of pleasing God without faith. But without faith it is impossible to please him; but without faith upon God in Christ, whom Enoch pleased, it is absolutely impossible to do any thing acceptable to God, so as to be justified by him; for infidelity, or want of faith, makes God a liar, 1 John 5:10, Christ a vanity, John 5:40, and God’s will a deceit, which... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 11:4-6

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESHebrews 11:4. More excellent.—Because Abel made it the offering of himself. It is the offering of the man himself, through his sacrifice, that God accepts. Dead yet speaketh.—Philo says, “Abel—which is most strange—has both been slain and lives.”Hebrews 11:6. Believe that he is.—The two absolutely fundamental truths of universal religion are: (1) God exists; (2) God is moral Governor of the universe, and as such rewards the pious, and punishes the ungodly.MAIN... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:1-7

Hebrews 11:1-7 Abel, Enoch, Noah. Before the flood and the Abrahamic covenant God had a people on earth who lived by faith. Abel, the first martyr, Enoch, the seventh from Adam, and Noah, the preacher of righteousness, are the three witnesses of the period whose lives are recorded. I. Abel, the first man who had to descend into the grave, was carried through it on the arms of redeeming love. Abel, believing the word, approached God through the bitter sacrifice. Every one who believes in Jesus... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hebrews 11:6

DISCOURSE: 2320THE NECESSITY OF FAITHHebrews 11:6. Without faith it is impossible to please [God.]THIS whole chapter is one continued commendation of faith: which is marked, throughout, as the one source of every good action, and as the certain prelude to everlasting felicity. But, in what is spoken of Enoch, there seems, to a superficial observer, to be no connexion with faith: for his translation was a mere act of God’s favour: and, though it is said that “he pleased God,” it may be supposed... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Hebrews 11:6

Faith A Sermon Delivered on Sabbath Morning, December 14, 1856, by the REV. C. H. Spurgeon at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. "Without faith it is impossible to please God." Hebrews 11:6 . THE OLD Assembly's Catechism asks, "What is the chief end of man?" and its answer is, "To glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever." The answer is exceedingly correct; but it might have been equally truthful if it had been shorter. The chief end of man is "to please God;" for in so doing we need not... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 11:1-40

Hebrews, chapter 11:Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen ( Hebrews 11:1 ).This is not so much a definition of faith as it is the declaration of what faith does. It is the substance of things that are hoped for. And the word substance there has been translated in the new versions the substantiating of the things that we hope for. And the evidence, that word has been translated conviction of the things not seen. I'm convicted of truths, though I may not... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 11:1-40

Hebrews 11:1 . Now faith is the substance of things hoped for. Paul uses here the same Greek word as in Hebrews 1:3, that the Son is the express image of the Father’s hypostasis, or person. Then faith identifies itself with its object. All the ideas embraced by faith subsist in God: they are all realities, as the existence of deity is a reality. Faith is therefore the evidence of things invisible, the strong argument or demonstration. Hebrews 11:2 . By it the elders obtained a good... read more

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