AMONG THREE GREATEST
1Corinthians 13.13
13.And now FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE, abide these three and the greatest of these is LOVE.
Faith and love are the most popular subjects in the church, but how often you heard about HOPE? I didn’t. Why love is the greatest among these three, because love in it self have all the greatest and important qualities that all Christians need in order to be a Christian and satisfy the Lord by their own life according to His Commandments and Statutes. Only from true love derive all the best qualities of goodness, righteousness, integrity, honesty, kindness, FAITH, and HOPE. And this is why Paul put HOPE among the three greatest.
HOPE is very similar to FAITH, but also is very different then it comes to specific feelings under certain conditions.
1Thessalonians 1.3.8
3.trembling before our GOD and Father, your work of FAITH and labor of LOVE, and steadfastness of HOPE in our Lord Jesus Christ.
IN HOPE WE WERE SAVED
Romans 8.20.24-25
20.the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but by the will of the One Who subjected it in HOPE,
24.IN HOPE WE WERE SAVED. Now HOPE that is seen is not HOPE. Who HOPES for what is seen?
25.But if we HOPE for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Colossians 1.4-5
4.we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,
5.because of the HOPE laid up for you in Heaven.
1Thessalonians 5.8
8.But since we belong to the day, let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, THE HOPE OF SALVATION.
Titus 1.2-3
2.IN THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE that GOD Who never lies promised before the age began,
3.in due time He revealed His word through the proclamation with which I have been entrusted by the command of GOD our Savior.
To Titus 3.7
7.so that having been justified by His grace we might became heirs, according to THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE.
HOPE IN CHRIST
Matthew 12.21
21.And in His name the Gentiles will HOPE.
1Timothy 1.1
1.Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of GOD our Savior, AND OF CHRIST JESUS OUR HOPE.
1Timothy 4.10
10.To this end we toil and struggle because we have OUR HOPE SET ON THE LIVING GOD, Who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.
Hebrews 3.6
6.Christ however was faithful over GOD’S house as a Son, and we are His house if we hold firm in the confidence and the pride that BELONGS TO HOPE.
Hebrews 7.19
19.the Law made nothing perfect, there is on the other hand the introduction of a BETTER HOPE through which we approach GOD.
1Peter 1.3.13.21
3.Blessed be the GOD and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us a new birth into a LIVING HOPE through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
13.Therefore, prepare your minds for action, discipline yourselves, SET ALL YOUR HOPE ON THE GRACE that Jesus Christ will bring you when He is revealed.
21.Through Him you have come to trust in GOD, Who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that YOUR FAITH AND HOPE ARE SET ON GOD.
HOPE IN LOVE
Psalms 33.18.22
18.Truly, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, and those who HOPE IN HIS STEADFAST LOVE,
22.Let Your steadfast love O Lord be upon us, even as we HOPE IN YOU.
Psalms 147.11
11.but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear Him, in those WHO HOPE IN HIS STEADFAST LOVE.
1Corinthians 13.13
13.And now FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE, abide these three and the greatest of these is LOVE.
Faith and love are the most popular subjects in the church, but how often you heard about HOPE? I didn’t. Why love is the greatest among these three, because love in it self have all the greatest and important qualities that all Christians need in order to be a Christian and satisfy the Lord by their own life according to His Commandments and Statutes. Only from true love derive all the best qualities of goodness, righteousness, integrity, honesty, kindness, FAITH, and HOPE. And this is why Paul put HOPE among the three greatest.
HOPE is very similar to FAITH, but also is very different then it comes to specific feelings under certain conditions.
1Thessalonians 1.3.8
3.trembling before our GOD and Father, your work of FAITH and labor of LOVE, and steadfastness of HOPE in our Lord Jesus Christ.
IN HOPE WE WERE SAVED
Romans 8.20.24-25
20.the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but by the will of the One Who subjected it in HOPE,
24.IN HOPE WE WERE SAVED. Now HOPE that is seen is not HOPE. Who HOPES for what is seen?
25.But if we HOPE for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Colossians 1.4-5
4.we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,
5.because of the HOPE laid up for you in Heaven.
1Thessalonians 5.8
8.But since we belong to the day, let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, THE HOPE OF SALVATION.
Titus 1.2-3
2.IN THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE that GOD Who never lies promised before the age began,
3.in due time He revealed His word through the proclamation with which I have been entrusted by the command of GOD our Savior.
To Titus 3.7
7.so that having been justified by His grace we might became heirs, according to THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE.
HOPE IN CHRIST
Matthew 12.21
21.And in His name the Gentiles will HOPE.
1Timothy 1.1
1.Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of GOD our Savior, AND OF CHRIST JESUS OUR HOPE.
1Timothy 4.10
10.To this end we toil and struggle because we have OUR HOPE SET ON THE LIVING GOD, Who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.
Hebrews 3.6
6.Christ however was faithful over GOD’S house as a Son, and we are His house if we hold firm in the confidence and the pride that BELONGS TO HOPE.
Hebrews 7.19
19.the Law made nothing perfect, there is on the other hand the introduction of a BETTER HOPE through which we approach GOD.
1Peter 1.3.13.21
3.Blessed be the GOD and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us a new birth into a LIVING HOPE through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
13.Therefore, prepare your minds for action, discipline yourselves, SET ALL YOUR HOPE ON THE GRACE that Jesus Christ will bring you when He is revealed.
21.Through Him you have come to trust in GOD, Who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that YOUR FAITH AND HOPE ARE SET ON GOD.
HOPE IN LOVE
Psalms 33.18.22
18.Truly, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, and those who HOPE IN HIS STEADFAST LOVE,
22.Let Your steadfast love O Lord be upon us, even as we HOPE IN YOU.
Psalms 147.11
11.but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear Him, in those WHO HOPE IN HIS STEADFAST LOVE.