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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?
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?
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?
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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Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 8:24
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A Two-Stage Healing
23 And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies. 24 For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees? 25 But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.
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1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.
2 Corinthians 4:18
While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 5:7
(For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)
Psalm 33:18
See, the eye of the Lord is on those in whose hearts is the fear of him, on those whose hope is in his mercy;
Psalm 33:22
Let your mercy be on us, O Lord, as we are waiting for you.
Psalm 146:5
Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
Proverbs 14:32
The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
Jeremiah 17:7
A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
Zechariah 9:12
And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back twice as much;
Romans 5:2
Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 12:12
Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,
Romans 15:4
Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.
Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 13:13
But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Galatians 5:5
For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.
Colossians 1:5
Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,
Colossians 1:23
If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
Colossians 1:27
To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret 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 had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
Titus 2:11-13
For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,
Hebrews 6:18-19
So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
1 Peter 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 1:10-11
For the prophets who gave the news of the grace which would come to you, made search with all care for knowledge of this salvation;
1 Peter 1:21
Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
1 John 3:3
And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.