KJV 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?
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Romans 8:24
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?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?
WEB World English Bible
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
ASV American Standard Version
For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for it?
Surrounding context — Romans 8
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
23 And not only [they], but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body.
24 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?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for [it].
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.
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τῇG3588 · hothe/this/whoγὰρG1063 · garforἐλπίδιG1680 · elpishopeἐσώθημεν·G4982 · sōzōto saveἐλπὶςG1680 · elpishopeδὲG1161 · dethenβλεπομένηG991 · blepōto seeοὐκG3756 · ounoἔστινG1510 · eimito beἐλπίς·G1680 · elpishopeὃG3739 · hos, hēwhichγὰρG1063 · garforβλέπειG991 · blepōto seeτίς,G5101 · tiswhich?ἐλπίζει;G1679 · elpizōto hope/expect
Cross-references
2 Corinthians 5:7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)Hebrews 11:1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.2 Corinthians 4:18While 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.1 Peter 1:21Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.Romans 12:12Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;1 Thessalonians 5:8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.Romans 15:13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.1 Peter 1:3Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,Romans 5:2By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.Hebrews 6:18-19That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:Colossians 1:27To whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:Psalm 146:5Happy [is he] that [hath] the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope [is] in the LORD his God:Romans 15:4For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.Psalm 33:18Behold, the eye of the LORD [is] upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;Galatians 5:5For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.2 Thessalonians 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,1 Corinthians 13:13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.1 John 3:3And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
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