So we don’t focus on what we can see. Instead, we focus on what we can’t see. That’s because the things that can be seen last only a short time, but the things that can’t be seen will last forever.
May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ be praised! In his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope because Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
God has chosen to make known to them the glorious riches of that mystery among the Gentiles. And here’s what it is: Christ is in you, the hope of glory.
Everything written in the past was written to teach us, so that we would have hope both through the endurance the Scriptures teach and through the encouragement they provide.
May our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father encourage your hearts and make you strong in every good thing that you do and say. God loved us and by his grace he has given us good hope and encouragement that will last forever.
But you must keep your faith steady and firm and not move away from the hope that the good news is offering you. This is the good news that you heard. It has been preached to every creature under heaven and I, Paul, am its servant.
Even though there was no reason for hope, Abraham still had hope, and he believed. That was how he became the father of many nations, exactly as God had promised. God had told him, “That is how many children you will have.”
The created world was held back from fulfilling its purpose, not because it chose that, but because the one who held it back planned things that way. God wanted