“ But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. ”
But if we hope ... - The effect here stated is one which exists everywhere. Where there is a strong desire for an object, and a corresponding expectation of obtaining it - which constitutes true...
The Birth-Pangs of Immortality. Romans 8:18 . These present sufferings are light beyond comparison, in view of the glory awaiting us at the coming revelation. The destined glory is hidden under a...
with . through. App-104. Romans 8:1 . patience . See Romans 2:7 .
25. If then what we see not, etc. This is an argument derived from what the antecedent implies; for patience necessarily follows hope. For when it is grievous to be without the good you ma...
DISCOURSE: 1875 THE OFFICE OF HOPE Romans 8:24-25 . We are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, t...
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it . But if we hope for that we see not - If we have a well-grounded expectation of our resurrection and final glorification,...
But if we hope for that we see not, &c.— What the Apostle says here of hope, is to shew them, that the groaning of the children of God, before spoken of, was not the groaning of impatience,...
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. But if we hope for that we see not, [then do] we with patience wait for it - i:e., then, patient waiting for it is ou...
The New Life in Cheist in relation to God and the Spirit It was shown in Romans 5:12 . that condemnation for the guilt of sin is done away by justification through faith in Christ. The question...
(18-25) The mention of “suffering” and of “glory” recalls the Apostle to a sense of his own position — what he had to go through, and what was the hope that he had to animate and encourage him. A viv...
Chapter 18 HOLINESS BY THE SPIRIT, AND THE GLORIES THAT SHALL FOLLOW Romans 8:12-25 Now the Apostle goes on to develop these noble premisses into conclusions. How true to himself, and to his I...
Hoping for the Completed Redemption Romans 8:18-30 Creation groans for freedom from the serpent's trail. Like a captive maiden she sighs to be delivered from the curse which sin has brought upo...
The opening sentences of this chapter show a remarkable contrast with the previous chapter. From the fearful sense of condemnation we pass into the consciousness of no condemnation. Having shown the...
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (19) For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the mani...
PATIENT WAITING ‘If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.’ Romans 8:25 We are living in a transition time, by which we mean that ours is an age of change. This i...
But if we hope for that we see not ,.... Whether it be the hour of death, or the second coming of Christ, or the resurrection of the dead, and eternal glory; all which are unseen by us, and to be ho...
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it . Ver. 25. Then do we with patience ] Religious men find it more easy to bear evil than to wait till the promised good...
For we are saved by hope That is, our salvation is now only in hope; we do not yet possess the full salvation; but hope that is seen is not hope Hope here, by a usual metonymy, is put for the obj...
Deliverance Simply by God's Truth We come now, in the first four verses here, to the deliverance itself. Is this to be by means of experience? A mere glance at the verses will show us it is decide...
The Believer's Privileges. A. D. 58. 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint...
q.d. If we indeed hope for redemption and salvation, which is out of sight, then it is meet that we do with patience digest and bear all our present evils and sufferings; true hope is accompanied alw...
The Whole Of Creation Is Groaning In Expectation Of Its Redemption. And God's People Also Groan With It, As Does The Spirit Of God Himself On Our Behalf (8:18-27). In spite of the division necessa...
CRITICAL NOTES Romans 8:24 .—The salvation which we now enjoy is by the exercise of hope as well as faith. Romans 8:25 .—The duty of waiting with patient endurance is argued from salvation bein...
Romans 8:23-27 Waiting in Hope. I. The unintelligent creatures wait, but not in hope. They travail as in pain with the burden of a future birth, of which they themselves are ignorant. We know wha...
Romans 8:1 . There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. To my mind one of the sweetest words of that verse is th...
The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot...
For we are saved by hope. Saved in hope According to our version “we are saved by hope,” but that is scarcely in accordance with other parts of Holy Scripture. Everywhere we are told that we ar...
EXPOSITION Romans 8:1-45 ( c ) The blessed condition and assured hope of such as are in Christ Jesus. The summary of the contents of this chapter, which follows the Exposition, may be ref...
The sighing hope of the Christians and the Spirit's intercession:
1 Thessalonians 1:3 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:5 ; Colossians 1:11 ; Genesis 49:18 ; Hebrews 10:36 ; Hebrews 12:1-3 ; Hebrews 6:12 ; Hebrews 6:15 ; Isaiah 25:9 ; Isaiah 26:8 ; James 1:3 ; James...