Romans 8:24

For we are saved by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for why does any one indeed hope for that which he sees?

1902 William Baxter Godbey 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

23and not only so, but we ourselves, having the earnest of the Spirit, and we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of sons, the redemption of our body.

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

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Cross References

Romans 5:2through whom we also have access by faith unto this grace in which we stand, and let us rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

Romans 15:4For so many things as were previously written were written for our instruction, in order that through the patience and through the consolation of the scriptures we may have hope.

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