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But if we hope for that which we don`t see, we wait for it with patience.
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Hope's Necessary Partner
Commentators like John Calvin and Albert Barnes explain that hope and patience are inseparable partners. By definition, hope is the confident expectation of something we cannot yet see. Because our ultimate salvation—the redemption of our bodies—is a future, unseen reality, patience becomes the logical and necessary response. True hope for the future empowers endurance in the present.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But if we hope, etc. The effect stated here is one which exists everywhere. Where there is a strong desire for an object, and a <…
With patience (δι' υπομονης). Paul repeats the verb απεκδεχομα of verse 23.
19th Century
Anglican
If salvation were something that could be seen, something that could be grasped by sight, then there would be no room for hope. As it is we do …
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Baptist
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? But if we hope for that we see not,…
In keeping with the eager waiting of those who long for their complete salvation (v.23) is the emphasis on hope (vv.24–25; cf. also 5:4). The Chris…
16th Century
Protestant
If then what we see not, etc. This is an argument derived from what the antecedent implies; for patience necessarily follows hope…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But if we hope for that we see not Whether it be the hour of death, or the second coming of Christ, or the resurrect…
The sufferings of the saints strike no deeper than the things of time, last no longer than the present time, are light afflictions, and only for a …
13th Century
Catholic
After demonstrating the excellence of future glory from the longing of creation, the Apostle now demonstrates the same from the longing o…
