Romans 8:24

Because we live in hope. But hope that is seen, is not hope: for if we saw it, how should we hope for it?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 in whom are the first fruits of the Spirit, we groan within ourselves, and look anxiously for the adoption of sons, the redemption of our bodies.

25But if we hope for that which is not seen, we are in patient waiting.

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Cross References

Romans 5:2By whom we are brought by faith into this grace, in which we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

Romans 15:4For every thing written of old, was written for our instruction; that we, by patience and by the consolation of the scriptures, might possess hope.

1 Corinthians 13:13For these three things are abiding, 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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