Parallel Verses
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?
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?
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?
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 ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, to wit , the redemption of our body. 24 For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth? 25 But if we hope for that which we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
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1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.
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, not by sight);
Psalm 33:18
Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear him, Upon them that hope in his lovingkindness;
Psalm 33:22
Let thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, According as we have hoped in thee.
Psalm 146:5
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in Jehovah his God:
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
Jeremiah 17:7
Blessed is the man that trusteth in Jehovah, and whose trust Jehovah is.
Zechariah 9:12
Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.
Romans 5:2
through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 12:12
rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;
Romans 15:4
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
Romans 15:13
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 13:13
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Galatians 5:5
For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
Colossians 1:5
because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,
Colossians 1:23
if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.
Colossians 1:27
to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
2 Thessalonians 2:16
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
Titus 2:11-13
For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
Hebrews 6:18-19
that 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 lay hold of the hope set before us:
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 1:10-11
Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that'should come unto you:
1 Peter 1:21
who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
1 John 3:3
And every one that hath this hope'set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.