Romans 8:24

WEB

²⁴For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

KJV

²⁴For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

BSB

²⁴For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?

FBV

²⁴For we were saved by hope. Yet hope that's already seen isn't hope at all. Who hopes for what they can already see?

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Extra References

Hebrews 11:1

¹Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

2 Corinthians 4:18

¹⁸while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

1 Peter 1:21

²¹who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

Romans 12:12

¹²rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,

1 Thessalonians 5:8

⁸But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Romans 15:13

¹³Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 1:3

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Romans 5:2

²through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

¹⁸that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us. ¹⁹This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil,