Or is He speaking entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing in the crops.

it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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

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