Romans 8:24

For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

Darby Translation

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 [that], but even *we* ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, [that is] the redemption of our body.

25But if what we see not we hope, we expect in patience.

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Cross References

Psalms 33:18Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his loving-kindness,

Psalms 146:5Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God,

Jeremiah 17:7Blessed is the man that confideth in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah is.

Romans 5:2by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.

Romans 15:4For as many things as have been written before have been written for our instruction, that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

1 Corinthians 13:13And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater 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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