Romans 8:24 KJV
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?
Romans 8:24, King James Version
In context
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24 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?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Cross-references
- 2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
- Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence 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.
- 1 Peter 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
- Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;