Our hope of glory

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1

Our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. 2 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. 3

Our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 4 Through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. 5 

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. 6 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 7

We groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 8 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 9

This is why we labour and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God. 10

 

1 1Pt 1.3 2 Phil 3.20-21 3 Heb 6.19 4 Rom 8.18 5 Gal 5.5 6 Rom 8.24-25 7 2Cor 4.18 8 Rom 8.23 9 1Jn 3.2 10 1Tim 4.10