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Faith is complete trust or confidence or strong belief in GOD or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.

~Hebrews 11:1 Amplified Version (AMP)

1) Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses).

2) For by this [kind of] faith the [a] men of old gained [divine] approval.

[a] i.e. those men and women who were faithful to GOD before the old covenant and those faithful to GOD after its establishment, those mentioned in this chapter.