Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.

For I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.