Romans 8:24

For in hope we live: but hope that is seen is not hope; for if we see it, why hope we for it?

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 we also who have in us the first-fruit of the Spirit, groan within ourselves, and wait for the adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

25But if we hope for that which is not seen, in patience we wait.

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Cross References

Romans 5:2And by him we have been admitted through faith into this grace in which we stand, and exult in hope of the glory of Aloha.

Romans 15:4For every thing that hath before been written for our instruction was written, that by the patience and consolation of the scriptures we might have hope.

1 Corinthians 13:13For these are the three that remain, faith and hope and love; 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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