Romans 8:24

For we are saved by this hope; but hope that is seen is not hope; for, what any one sees, why does he also hope for it?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

In Context

23and not only they, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

25But if we hope for that which we see not we wait for it with patience.

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Cross References

Romans 5:2through whom we have had access, by faith, into this grace in which we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Romans 15:4For the things which were formerly written, were written for our instruction, that we, through the patience and the comfort which the scriptures give, might have hope.

1 Corinthians 13:13And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Matthew Henry on Romans 8:18-26

The Believer's Privileges. ( a. d. 58.) 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath… Read the whole commentary →

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