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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?
New American Standard Bible
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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?
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?
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 Not they only, but even we also: which have the first fruits of the spirit mourn in ourselves and wait for the adoption and look for the deliverance of our bodies. 24 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? 25 But and if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience abide for it.
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1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us which are of the day be sober, armed with the breast plate of faith and love, and with hope of salvation as a helmet.
Hebrews 11:1
Faith is a sure confidence of things which are hoped for, and a certainty of things which are not seen.
2 Corinthians 4:18
while we look not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen. For things which are seen, are temporal: but things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 5:7
For we walk in faith and see not.
Psalm 33:18
Behold, the eye of the LORD looketh unto them that fear him, and upon them that put their trust in his mercy,
Psalm 33:22
Let thy merciful kindness, O LORD, be upon us, like as we do put our trust in thee.
Psalm 146:5
Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, and whose hope is in the LORD his God,
Proverbs 14:32
The ungodly is afraid of every peril; but the righteous hath a good hope even in death.
Jeremiah 17:7
O Blessed is the man that putteth his trust in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is himself.
Zechariah 9:12
Turn you now to the stronghold, ye that be in prison, and long sore to be delivered: And this day I bring the word, that I will reward thee double again.
Romans 5:2
by whom we have a way in, through faith, unto this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the praise that shall be given of God.
Romans 12:12
Rejoice in hope. Be patient in tribulation, continue in prayer.
Romans 15:4
Whatsoever things are written aforetime, are written for our learning: that we, through patience and comfort of the scripture, might have hope.
Romans 15:13
The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may be rich in hope through the power of the holy ghost.
1 Corinthians 13:13
Now abideth faith, hope, and love, even these three: but the chief of these is love.
Galatians 5:5
We look for, and hope in the spirit, to be justified through faith.
Colossians 1:5
for the hope's sake which is laid up in store for you in heaven, of which hope ye have heard before by the true word of the gospel,
Colossians 1:23
if ye continue grounded and established in the faith, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, whereof ye have heard, how that it is preached among all creatures, which are under heaven, whereof I, Paul, am made a minister.
Colossians 1:27
to whom God would make known the glorious riches of this mystery among the gentiles, which riches is Christ in you, the hope of glory,
2 Thessalonians 2:16
Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace,
Titus 2:11-13
For the grace of God, that bringeth salvation unto all men, hath appeared
Hebrews 6:18-19
that by two immutable things - in which it was impossible that God should lie - we might have perfect consolation, which have fled, for to hold fast the hope that is set before us:
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which through his abundant mercy begat us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from death,
1 Peter 1:10-11
Of which salvation have the prophets enquired, and searched, which prophesied of the grace that should come unto you;
1 Peter 1:21
Which, by his means, have believed on God that raised him from death, and glorified him, that your faith and hope might be in God.
1 John 3:3
And every man that hath this hope in him, purgeth himself, even as he is pure.