New Revised Standard Version
For 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.

Contemporary English Version
We have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, but especially of those who have faith. This is why we work and struggle so hard.

New American Bible
For this we toil and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the savior of all, especially of those who believe.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

therefore.

1 Corinthians 4:9-13 For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:8-10 In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We are straitened: but are not destitute. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:3-10 Giving no offence to any man, that our ministry be not blamed. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:23-27 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. . . .

2 Timothy 2:9,10 Wherein I labour even unto bands, as an evildoer. But the word of God is not bound. . . .

2 Timothy 3:10-12 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience, . . .

Hebrews 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasure of the Egyptians. For he looked unto the reward.

Hebrews 13:13 Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

1 Peter 4:14,15 If you be reproached for the name of Christ, you shall be blessed: for that which is of the honour, glory and power of God, and that which is his Spirit resteth upon you. . . .

because.

1 Timothy 6:17 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy)

Psalm 37:40 And the Lord will help them and deliver them: and he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them because they have hoped in him.

Psalm 52:8 But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever and ever.

Psalm 84:12 He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Psalm 118:8 It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in man.

Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation.

Isaiah 50:10 Who is there among you that feareth the Lord, that heareth the voice of his servant, that hath walked in darkness, and hath no light? let him hope in the name of the Lord, and lean upon his God.

Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence.

Daniel 3:28 For thou hast executed true judgments in all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers: for according to truth and judgment, thou hast brought all these things upon us for our sins.

Nahum 1:7 The Lord is good, and giveth strength in the day of trouble: and knoweth them that hope in him.

Matthew 27:43 He trusted in God: let him now deliver him if he will have him. For he said: I am the Son of God.

Romans 15:12,13 And again, Isaias saith: There shall be a root of Jesse; and he that shall rise up to rule the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles shall hope. . . .

1 Peter 1:21 Who through him are faithful in God who raised him up from the dead and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

the living.

1 Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

the saviour.

1 Timothy 2:4,6 Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. . . .

Psalm 36:6 Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:

Psalm 107:2,6 Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries. . . .

*etc:

Isaiah 45:21,22 Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none besides me. . . .

John 1:29 The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him; and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.

John 3:15-17 That whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting. . . .

1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

1 John 4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.

specially.

John 5:24 Amen, amen, I say unto you that he who heareth my word and believeth him that sent me hath life everlasting: and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death to life.

1 John 5:10-13 He that believeth in the Son of God hath the testimony of God in himself. He that believeth not the Son maketh him a liar: because he believeth not in the testimony which God hath testified of his Son. . . .