Romans 8:24

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen, is not hope; for what any one sees, how doth he yet hope for?

1770 John Worsley 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 others, but those also who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit the redemption of our body.

25but if we hope for what we see not, then we wait for it with patience.

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Cross References

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

Romans 15:4For whatever things were written heretofore, were written for our instruction; that we through patience and the consolation of the scriptures might have hope.

1 Corinthians 13:13And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three graces; 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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