24For 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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(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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.
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.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-25)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 entitles us to that glory, so the disposition of sons fits and prepares us for it. If children, then heirs , Rom. 8:17. In earthly inheritances this rule does not hold, only the first-born are heirs; b…
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