Romans 8:24
By our hope we were saved. But the thing hoped for is no longer an object of hope when it is before our eyes; for who hopes for what is before his eyes?
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25But when we hope for what is not before our eyes, then we wait for it with patience.
Cross References
Psalms 33:18See! The eye of the Lord is on those who revere him, on those who hope in his kindness;
Psalms 146:5Happy those whose help is the God of Jacob: whose hope is set on the Lord their God,
Romans 5:2It is through him that, by reason of our faith, we have obtained admission to that place in God’s favor in which we now stand. So let us exult in our hope of attaining God’s glorious ideal.
Romans 15:4Whatever was written in the scriptures in days gone by was written for our instruction, so that, through patient endurance, and through the encouragement drawn from the scriptures, we might hold fast to our hope.
1 Corinthians 13:13Meanwhile faith, hope, and love endure – 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 →