Study Desk

It was in this hope that we were saved. But if we see what we hope for, it isn't hope — after all, who hopes for what he already sees?

But if we continue hoping for something we don't see, then we still wait eagerly for it, with perseverance.

just as the Tanakh says, "God has given them a spirit of dullness — eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, right down to the present day."

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see, with their backs bent continually."

but rather, as the Tanakh puts it, "Those who have not been told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand."

I hope to see you as I pass through on my way to Spain, and to have you help me travel there after I have enjoyed your company awhile.

For now we see obscurely in a mirror, but then it will be face to face. Now I know partly; then I will know fully, just as God has fully known me.

For I don't want to see you now, when I am only passing through; because I am hoping to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows it.

If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to be afraid of while he is with you; for he is doing the Lord's work, just as I am.

So sure was I of this that I had planned to come and see you, so that you might have the benefit of a second visit.

The reason I wrote you was to see if you would pass the test, to see if you would fully obey me.

unlike Moshe, who put a veil over his face, so that the people of Isra'el would not see the fading brightness come to an end.

So all of us, with faces unveiled, see as in a mirror the glory of the Lord; and we are being changed into his very image, from one degree of glory to the next, by Adonai the Spirit.

for we live by trust, not by what we see.

However, it was not only his arrival which encouraged us, but also how encouraged he was about you, as he told us how you long to see me, how distressed you are over my situation, how zealous you are in my defense — this news made me even happier!

If I caused you pain by my letter, I do not regret it. Even if I did regret it before — for I do see that that letter did distress you, though only for a short time —

So even though I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of either the one who did the wrong or the one wronged, but so that before God you could see for yourselves how deep is your devotion to us.

Just as you excel in everything — in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in diligence of every kind, and in your love for us — see that you excel in this gift too.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are living the life of trust. Test yourselves. Don't you realize that Yeshua the Messiah is in you? — unless you fail to pass the test.

and I did not go up to Yerushalayim to see those who were emissaries before me. Instead, I immediately went off to Arabia and afterwards returned to Dammesek.