Romans 8:24

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τῇ γὰρ ἐλπίδι ἐσώθημεν: ἐλπὶς δὲ βλεπομένη οὐκ ἔστιν ἐλπίς: ὃ γὰρ βλέπει τις, τί καὶ ἐλπίζει;

Transliteration

For in the elpidi esōthēmen: elpis de blepomenē ouk estin elpis: what for blepei tis, ti kai elpizei?

Grammar Details

*elpidi*: dative feminine singular - hope
*esōthēmen*: aorist passive indicative 1st person plural - we were saved
*elpis*: nominative feminine singular - hope
*de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
*blepomenē*: present passive participle nominative feminine singular - being seen
*ouk*: negative particle - not
*estin*: present active indicative 3rd person singular - is
*blepei*: present active indicative 3rd person singular - sees
*tis*: indefinite pronoun nominative masculine singular - someone
*ti*: interrogative pronoun accusative neuter singular - why
*kai*: adverbial - also/still
*elpizei*: present active indicative 3rd person singular - hopes

Word Meanings

*elpidi*: hope/expectation
*esōthēmen*: we were saved/rescued/delivered [completed passive action]
*blepomenē*: being seen/observed/perceived
*blepei*: sees/perceives/observes
*elpizei*: hopes for/expects/looks forward to

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Thess 5:8 : 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
Heb 11:1 : 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 Cor 5:7 : 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
2 Cor 4:18 : 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 Pet 1:3 : 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Pet 1:10-11 : 10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
1 Pet 1:21 : 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.
1 John 3:3 : 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Gal 5:5 : 5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Col 1:5 : 5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
Col 1:23 : 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Col 1:27 : 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
2 Thess 2:16 : 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
Titus 2:11-13 : 11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly , righteously, and godly, in this present world; 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Heb 6:18-19 : 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
Ps 33:18 : 18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
Ps 33:22 : 22 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
Ps 146:5 : 5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Jer 17:7 : 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
Zech 9:12 : 12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
Rom 5:2 : 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Rom 12:12 : 12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Rom 15:4 : 4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
Rom 15:13 : 13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
1 Cor 13:13 : 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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