Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For we were saved to hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what is seen, why also hope for that?
New American Standard Bible
For
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?
Holman Bible
Now in this hope
International Standard Version
For we were saved with this hope in mind. Now a hope that can be observed is not really hope, for who hopes for what can be seen?
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?
Amplified
For in this hope we were saved [by faith]. But hope [the object of] which is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he already sees?
An Understandable Version
For in [this] hope we were saved [i.e., we received the hope of future blessings]; but if we [already] see what we hope for, it is not [really] hope. For who hopes for what he [already] sees?
Anderson New Testament
For we are saved by this hope; but hope that is seen is not hope; for, what any one sees, why does he also hope for it?
Bible in Basic English
For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?
Common New Testament
For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?
Daniel Mace New Testament
for we are saved but by hope: but hope supposes things not yet present; for how can a man hope for what he has now in possession?
Darby Translation
For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?
Godbey New Testament
For we are saved by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for why does any one indeed hope for that which he sees?
Goodspeed New Testament
It was in this hope that we were saved. But a hope that can be seen is not a hope, for who hopes for what he sees?
John Wesley New Testament
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man seeth, how doth he yet hope for?
Julia Smith Translation
For by hope were we saved: but hope being seen is not hope: for what any one sees, why does he also hope?
King James 2000
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for?
Lexham Expanded Bible
For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?
Modern King James verseion
For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for what anyone sees, why does he also hope for it?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is no hope. For how can a man hope for that which he seeth?
Moffatt New Testament
We were saved with this hope in view. Now when an object of hope is seen, there is no further need to hope. Who ever hopes for what he sees already?
Montgomery New Testament
For by hope we are saved; but hope which is clearly seen is no longer hope.
NET Bible
For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?
New Heart English Bible
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
Noyes New Testament
For we were saved only in hope. But hope which is seen is not hope; how can a man hope for that which he seeth?
Sawyer New Testament
For we are saved by hope; but a hope that is seen is not a hope; for why does one hope for what he sees?
The Emphasized Bible
For, by our hope, have we been saved, - but, hope beheld, is not hope, for, what one beholdeth, why doth he hope for?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For by hope we have been saved: now hope seen is not hope; for that which any man seeth how doth he yet hope for?
Twentieth Century New Testament
By our hope we were saved. But the thing hoped for is no longer an object of hope when it is before our eyes; for who hopes for what is before his eyes?
Webster
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?
Weymouth New Testament
It is *in hope* that we have been saved. But an object of hope is such no longer when it is present to view; for when a man has a thing before his eyes, how can he be said to hope for it?
Williams New Testament
For we were saved in such a hope.
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?
Worrell New Testament
For by hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for that which he sees?
Worsley New Testament
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?
Youngs 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?
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A Two-Stage Healing
23 And not only so, but also ourselves who have the first fruit of the Spirit. And we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. 24 For we were saved to hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what is seen, why also hope for that? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait through patience.
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Cross References
1 Thessalonians 5:8
But we, being of the day, should be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the foundation of hoping, the evidence of events not being seen.
2 Corinthians 4:18
while we look not at things seen, but at things not seen. For things seen are temporal, but things not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 5:7
for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Psalm 33:18
Behold, the eye of LORD is upon those who fear him, upon those who hope in his loving kindness,
Psalm 33:22
Let thy loving kindness, O LORD, be upon us, according as we have hoped in thee.
Psalm 146:5
Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in LORD his God,
Proverbs 14:32
An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.
Jeremiah 17:7
Blessed is the man who trusts in LORD, and whose trust LORD is.
Zechariah 9:12
Turn you back to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will render double to thee.
Romans 5:2
through whom also we have access by faith for this grace in which we stand, and we take pride in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 12:12
rejoicing in hope, enduring tribulation, persevering in prayer,
Romans 15:4
For as many things as were written previously were written for our learning, so that through perseverance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.
Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for ye to abound in hope in the power of Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 13:13
And now remain faith, hope, love, these three, but the greater of these is love.
Galatians 5:5
For we, in a Spirit of faith, wait for a hope of righteousness.
Colossians 1:5
because of the hope being reserved for you in the heavens, which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the good-news
Colossians 1:23
If ye truly continue in the faith, founded, and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good-news that ye heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I Paul became a helper.
Colossians 1:27
To whom God wanted to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
2 Thessalonians 2:16
And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father who loved us and gave eternal encouragement and good hope through grace,
Titus 2:11-13
For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men,
Hebrews 6:18-19
So that by two immutable events, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, having fled for refuge to seize the hope being openly displayed.
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who begot us again according to his abundant mercy for a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 1:10-11
About which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently. Men who prophesied about the grace for you,
1 Peter 1:21
Men who, because of him, believe in God who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, in order for your faith and hope to be in God.
1 John 3:3
And every man who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that man is pure.