Romans 8:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what one already sees?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ For in [this] hope we were saved. But hope [the object of] which is seen is not hope. For how can one hope for what he already sees?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth?

Common English Bible

²⁴ We were saved in hope. If we see what we hope for, that isn’t hope. Who hopes for what they already see?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ For we have been saved by hope. But a hope which is seen is not hope. For when a man sees something, why would he hope?

Romans 8:24 Cross References

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

2 Corinthians 5:7

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

2 Corinthians 4:18

because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen, for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

1 Peter 1:21

Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your trust and hope are in God.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; persevere in prayer.

Romans 5:2

through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God.

Romans 15:13

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Colossians 1:27

To them God chose to make known how great among the gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Romans 15:4

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, so that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

Galatians 5:5

For through the Spirit, by faith, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.

Psalm 146:5

Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God,

1 John 3:3

And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

2 Thessalonians 2:16

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and through grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

Colossians 1:23

provided that you continue securely established and steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, became a minister of this gospel.

Colossians 1:5

because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. You have heard of this hope before in the word of the truth, the gospel

1 Corinthians 13:13

And now faith, hope, and love remain, these three, and the greatest of these is love.

Zechariah 9:12

Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.

Jeremiah 17:7

Blessed are those who trust in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.

Psalm 33:18

Truly the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,

Psalm 33:22

Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.

Romans 4:18

Hoping against hope, he believed that he would become “the father of many nations,” according to what was said, “So shall your descendants be.”

Romans 8:20

for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope

Titus 3:7

so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.