Romans 8:24

For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, for why would someone hope for what he already sees?

Text-Critical English NT

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

23Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

25But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with patient endurance.

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Cross References

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

Romans 15:4For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

1 Corinthians 13:13And now faith, hope, and love abide, 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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