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?
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Gill's Exposition
For we are saved by hope,.... We who have received the firstfruits, who were in a lost perishing condition, and by nature no better than others, than the Gentiles, are saved by sin and wrath to come…
Barnes' Notes
For we are saved by hope - It cannot be said that hope is the instrument or condition of salvation. Most commentators have understood this as meaning that we have as yet attained salvation only in…
Adam Clarke
For we are saved by hope - We are supported and are comfortable in the expectation we have of receiving from the hand of our God all the good we need in the troubles and adversities of this life, and…
In these words the apostle describes a fourth illustrious branch of the happiness of believers, namely, a title to the future glory. This is fitly annexed to our sonship; for as the adoption of sons…
Cambridge Bible
For we are saved Lit., and better, we were saved; at the time of our deliverance from darkness into light.
by hope "Hope" has the article in the Gr. If our English Version is retained, the meaning…
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