<p>8:24 <i>For in hope were we saved; but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?</i>- &ldquo;In hope were we saved&rdquo; is better translated as &ldquo;saved in hope&rdquo;. God&rsquo;s grace and the blood of Christ, believed in by faith, are what saves, rather than hope of itself. We have been saved, but in hope- for the fullness of salvation will only be revealed when Christ returns. As commented under 8:23, we have been redeemed, but the redemption of the body is our expectation at the second coming. Note that the Greek for &ldquo;hope&rdquo; means a confident expectation- the English &lsquo;hope&rsquo; tends to carry a somewhat less confident flavour of meaning, the implication being that we &lsquo;hope for the best&rsquo; rather than confidently await. But because we are saved in Christ, our hope is certain. Likewise the Greek translated in this section as &ldquo;wait&rdquo; better translates as &lsquo;confidently await&rsquo;. We&rsquo;re not waiting to see what happens, but rather awaiting with confidence what must surely come for us- the redemption of our body. Anything less than this approach wouldn&rsquo;t have left Paul pulling out of his groaning within himself of Romans 7 with the confident cry of rejoicing, the scream in the night, of Rom. 7:25- that he has indeed found the way of escape and deliverance through Christ. Jesus personally is &ldquo;our hope&rdquo; (1 Tim. 1:1). And we are in Him. But we don&rsquo;t physically see Him yet, nor physically have we seen the redemption of our bodies. We therefore wait, or await confidently, the fulfilment of the hope which is now reserved for us (Col. 1:5).</p>