Romans 8:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

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  • 1 Thess 1:3 : 3 Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,
  • Col 1:11 : 11 Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;
  • Heb 10:36 : 36 For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.
  • Luke 21:19 : 19 By going through all these things, you will keep your lives.
  • 2 Thess 3:5 : 5 And may your hearts be guided by the Lord into the love of God and quiet waiting for Christ.
  • Ps 27:14 : 14 Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.
  • Ps 130:5-7 : 5 I am waiting for the Lord, my soul is waiting for him, and my hope is in his word. 6 My soul is watching for the Lord more than those who are watching for the morning; yes, more than the watchers for the morning. 7 O Israel, have hope in the Lord; for with the Lord is mercy and full salvation.
  • Isa 25:9 : 9 And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.
  • Isa 26:8 : 8 We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.
  • Lam 3:25-26 : 25 The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him. 26 It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
  • Luke 8:15 : 15 And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
  • Ps 37:7-9 : 7 Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs. 8 Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin. 9 For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.
  • Ps 62:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David.> My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my salvation.
  • Ps 62:5-6 : 5 My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my hope. 6 He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.
  • Heb 6:12 : 12 So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.
  • Heb 6:15 : 15 And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.
  • Rom 2:7 : 7 To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
  • Rom 8:23 : 23 And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.
  • Heb 12:1-3 : 1 For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us, 2 Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power. 3 Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.
  • Jas 1:3-4 : 3 Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope; 4 But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing.
  • Jas 5:7-9 : 7 Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come. 8 Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near. 9 Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors. 10 Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord. 11 We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I, John, your brother, who have a part with you in the trouble and the kingdom and the quiet strength of Jesus, was in the island which is named Patmos, for the word of God and the witness of Jesus.
  • Rev 13:10 : 10 If any man sends others into prison, into prison he will go: if any man puts to death with the sword, with the sword will he be put to death. Here is the quiet strength and the faith of the saints.
  • Rev 14:12 : 12 Here is the quiet strength of the saints, who keep the orders of God, and the faith of Jesus.
  • Gen 49:18 : 18 I have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord.

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    22 For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.

    23 And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.

    24 For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?

  • Rom 5:2-5
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    2 Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.

    3 And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

    4 And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:

    5 And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

  • 5 For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.

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    17 For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

    18 While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

  • Heb 10:36-37
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    36 For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

    37 In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.

  • Rom 8:18-19
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    18 I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.

    19 For the strong desire of every living thing is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.

  • 4 Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.

  • 7 (For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)

  • 5 I am waiting for the Lord, my soul is waiting for him, and my hope is in his word.

  • Lam 3:25-26
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    25 The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.

    26 It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

  • 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.

  • 12 Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

  • 26 And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;

  • 3 For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back.

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    7 Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.

    8 Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.

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    11 And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end:

    12 So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

  • 7 And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

  • 12 Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,

  • 18 Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.

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    18 So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

    19 And this hope is like a strong band for our souls, fixed and certain, and going in to that which is inside the veil;

  • 8 To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:

  • 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most unhappy.

  • 13 Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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    3 Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;

    4 But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing.

  • 9 And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

  • 23 Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word:

  • 13 But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.

  • 5 And may your hearts be guided by the Lord into the love of God and quiet waiting for Christ.

  • 11 We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

  • 12 Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.

  • 10 Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.

  • 13 Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

  • 9 But, my loved ones, though we say this, we are certain that you have better things in you, things which go with salvation;

  • 8 But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.

  • 17 And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.

  • 20 For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:

  • 21 This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.