Romans 8:24

A Two-Stage Healing

²³ And not Nature only; but we ourselves also, though we have already a first gift of the Spirit-we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we eagerly await our full adoption as Sons-the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴ 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? ²⁵ But when we hope for what is not before our eyes, then we wait for it with patience.

Hope that is Seen

What Is Seen

No

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But let us, who belong to the Day, control ourselves, and put on faith and love as a breast plate, and the hope of Salvation as a helmet.

Hebrews 11:1

Faith is the realization of things hoped for--the proof of things not seen.

2 Corinthians 4:18

We, all the while, gazing not on what is seen, but on what is unseen; for what is seen is transient, but what is unseen is imperishable.

2 Corinthians 5:7

For we guide our lives by faith, and not by what we see.

Romans 5:2

It is through him that, by reason of our faith, we have obtained admission to that place in God's favor in which we not stand. So let us exult in our hope of attaining God's glorious ideal.

Romans 12:12

Rejoicing in your hope; steadfast under persecution; persevering in prayer;

Romans 15:4

Whatever was written in the Scriptures in days gone by was written for our instruction, so that, through patient endurance, and through the encouragement drawn from the Scriptures, we might hold fast to our hope.

Romans 15:13

May God, who inspires our hope, grant you perfect happiness and peace in your faith, till you are filled with this hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 13:13

Meanwhile Faith, Hope, and Love endure-these three, but the greatest of these is Love.

Galatians 5:5

For we, by the help of the Spirit, are eagerly waiting for the fulfillment of our hope--that we may be pronounced righteous as the result of faith.

Colossians 1:5

On account of the hope which awaits its fulfillment in Heaven. Of this hope you heard long ago in the true Message of the Good News which reached you--

Colossians 1:23

If only you remain true to your Faith, firm and immovable, never abandoning the hope held out in the Good News to which you listened, which has been proclaimed among all created things under Heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

Colossians 1:27

To whom it was his pleasure to make known the surpassing glory of that hidden Truth when proclaimed among the Gentiles--'Christ among you! Your Hope of glory!'

2 Thessalonians 2:16

And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and, in his loving-kindness, gave us unfailing consolation and good ground for hope,

Titus 2:11-13

For the loving-kindness of God has been revealed, bringing Salvation for all;

Hebrews 6:18-19

For he intended us to find great encouragement in these two unchangeable things, which make it impossible for God to prove false--we, I mean, who fled for safety where we might lay hold on the hope set before us.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has, in his great mercy, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 1:10-11

It was this Salvation that the Prophets, who spoke long ago of the blessing intended for you, sought, and strove to comprehend;

1 Peter 1:21

who, through him, are faithful to God who raised him from the dead and gave him honour, so that your faith and hope are now in God.

1 John 3:3

And every one who has this hope with regard to Christ tries to make himself pure--as Christ is pure.