Romans 8:25 (WEB)
But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
Fathers and councils · 26
Augustine of Hippo
“For by hope we are saved; and through patience we await Thy promises.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“It is for our sakes, of whom it is said, “But if we hope for that we see not, we wait in patience;” or is it, that in him who has believed that which is begun may be perfected?” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 25.
Read the whole comment“This is the preparation of the heart, of which it is sung in another Psalm, “My heart is prepared, O God, my heart is prepared:” of which the Apostle says, “But if we hope for what we see not, we do with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 25.
Read the whole comment“In this darkness too, wherein “we yet walk by faith, and not by sight,” as long as “we hope for what we see not, and with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 25.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“In the mean while dwell in hope: for “hope that is seen is not hope; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“What patience is there amid so great scandals, except that “if for that which we do not see we hope, through patience we look for it”?” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 25.
Read the whole comment““For by hope we have been saved: but if that which we see not we hope for, through patience we wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“…awaiting the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body; for we are saved by hope; and if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 23–25.
Read the whole comment“…by faith, He were not still to be diligently sought, it would not be said, “For if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”…And truly this is the sense of the words, “Seek His face evermore;” meaning that discovery should not terminate that seeking, by which love is testified, but…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 25.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“While “we await the redemption of our body, we are saved by hope, and hoping for that we see not, we await with patience.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 23–25.
Read the whole comment“For if what we see not, we hope for, by patience we wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“Since it is of the body’s redemption which is to be in the end, that the Apostle speaks, where he says, “Even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting the adoption of sons, the redemption of our body.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 23–25
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it,” viz. “as long as the King sitteth at His table.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25
Read the whole comment“It is an egg, and not as yet the chicken.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“But if we hope for those things we see [not], we then by patience wait for them.’” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
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John Chrysostom
“For “by hope we are saved”; if therefore “we are saved by hope,” and “are waiting with patience” ( Rom. viii. 25 ), let us not be grieved at present things, nor seek now those that have been promised afterwards; “For” (he says) “hope which is seen is not hope.”” — the author cites it
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Cyprian of Carthage
“But if we hope for that which we see not, then do we by patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for what we see not, we hope for it in patience.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
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Tertullian
Chapter XIV.—The Divine Power Shown in Christ’s Incarnation. Meaning of St. Paul’s Phrase. Likeness of Sinful Flesh. No Docetism in It. Resurrection of Our Real Bodies. A Wide Chasm Made in the Epistle by Marcion’s…
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in The City of God XV.18.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 8.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 8.
Cited together in The City of God XV.18.
Cited together in Confessions XI.9.
Cited together in The City of God X.24.
Cited together in The City of God X.24.
Cited together in Confessions XI.9.
Cited together in Confessions XI.9.
Cited together in Confessions XI.9.
Cited together in Confessions XI.9.
Cited together in The City of God XV.18.
Cited together in The City of God X.24.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 7.