Romans 8:24

A Two-Stage Healing

²³ and not only they, but even those who have the first fruits of the spirit, even we our selves do inwardly groan for the fruit of our adoption, by the deliverance of our body from corruption. ²⁴ 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? ²⁵ but if we hope for what is yet to come, our patience does necessarily intervene.

Hope that is Seen

What Is Seen

No

1 Thessalonians 5:8

but let us, who enjoy the light, be temperate; let us be arm'd with the breast-plate of faith and charity, and for an helmet, with the hope of salvation.

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the foundation of our hopes of happiness, and the persuasion we have about things not evident to our senses.

2 Corinthians 4:18

for I have no regard to the things which are visible, but to such as are invisible: since visible things are temporary, but the invisible are eternal.

2 Corinthians 5:7

(for I regulate my conduct by my future expectations, not by visible enjoyments:

Romans 5:2

who has given us access by faith to that degree of favour, we are in, by which we triumph in the hopes of divine glory.

Romans 12:12

be joyful in hope; be patient under affliction; persevere in prayer;

Romans 15:4

now whatever was heretofore writ, was writ for our instruction; that we through patience and the comfortable promises of the scriptures 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 through the power of the holy spirit.

1 Corinthians 13:13

and now faith, hope, social virtue, these three will all remain; but the most permanent of the three is social virtue.

Galatians 5:5

but as for us, our minds are possessed with the hopes of justification by faith.

Colossians 1:5

for the sake of that happiness, which you hope for, and is reserv'd for you in heaven, of which you have already been inform'd by the preaching of the truth, that is, the gospel:

Colossians 1:23

provided you continue well-grounded and settled in the faith, and do not abandon that hope which has been offer'd to you by the gospel, and is proclaim'd to all mankind; of which I Paul am made a minister.

Colossians 1:27

to whom God does disclose the glorious advantages of this mystery to you Gentiles, to wit, "that by Christ you may have the expectation of glory."

2 Thessalonians 2:16

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ, and God our father, who has loved us, and by his favour given us the advantageous hopes of eternal joys, consolate your souls,

Titus 2:11-13

For the divine savour has display'd its salutary effects to all mankind:

Hebrews 6:18-19

that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to deceive us, we, who have no other refuge to fly to, but to maintain our present hopes,

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has regenerated us, and given us by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the expectation of immortal life,

1 Peter 1:10-11

'Twas this salvation, that employ'd the most profound enquiries of those, who predicted the dispensation that was to be in your behalf:

1 Peter 1:21

it is by him that you believe in God, who has raised him from the dead, and invested him with glory, that your faith and your hope might be in God.

1 John 3:3

he that hath such an expectation should purify himself, even as he is pure.