Romans 8:24
Good News Translation
For it was by hope that we were saved; but if we see what we hope for, then it is not really hope. For who of us hopes for something we see?

New Revised Standard Version
For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen?

Contemporary English Version
And this hope is what saves us. But if we already have what we hope for, there is no need to keep on hoping.

New American Bible
For in hope we were saved. Now hope that sees for itself is not hope. For who hopes for what one sees?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth he hope for?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth he hope for?

saved.

Romans 5:2 By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.

Romans 15:4,13 For what things soever were written were written for our learning: that, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope. . . .

Psalm 33:18,22 Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on them that hope in his mercy. . . .

Psalm 146:5 Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence.

Zechariah 9:12 Return to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope, I will render thee double as I declare today.

1 Corinthians 13:13 And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.

Galatians 5:5 For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of justice.

Colossians 1:5,23,27 For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard in the word of the truth of the gospel, . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breast plate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope in grace,

Titus 2:11-13 For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men: . . .

Hebrews 6:18,19 That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us. . . .

1 Peter 1:3,21 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead: . . .

1 John 3:3 And every one that hath this hope in him sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy.

but hope.

2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not 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.

2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith and not by sight.)

Hebrews 11:1 Now, faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not.

1 Peter 1:10,11 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you. . . .

Context
Future Glory
23And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit: even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body. 24For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth he hope for? 25But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with patience.…
Cross References
Romans 4:18
Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

Romans 8:20
For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope.

2 Corinthians 4:18
While we look not 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.

2 Corinthians 5:7
(For we walk by faith and not by sight.)

1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breast plate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Titus 3:7
That, being justified by his grace, we may be heirs according to hope of life everlasting.

Hebrews 11:1
Now, faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not.

Romans 8:23
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