Bible verses about hope
Hope in Scripture is not optimism about how things will turn out; it is confidence about who is at the end of them. These passages are set out with a sentence on each — including the ones written by people who were still waiting when they died.
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — Hebrews 11:1 · WEB
Faith is defined by what it does for unseen things, and the first exhibit is not a hero but the creation itself.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit. — Romans 15:13 · WEB
Christ served the circumcision to confirm the promises, four quotations sweep the canon for Gentile praise, and the section ends in a benediction of hope.
but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint. — Isaiah 40:31 · WEB
God is measured against the universe and the idol-makers in turn, and the answer to a complaint about being overlooked is the star count.
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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, — 1 Peter 1:3 · WEB
The inheritance is described by what cannot happen to it, and the same power that guards it is said to be guarding the heirs.
“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.” — Lamentations 3:24 · WEB
The turn in the book's center is produced by remembering rather than by any change in circumstances, and nothing outside the man has improved.
I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word. — Psalm 130:5 · WEB
The reason God is feared is not that he keeps records but that he does not.
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil, — Hebrews 6:19 · WEB
God swears by himself because nothing greater exists, and the hope this produces is pictured as an anchor holding inside the veil.
and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. — Romans 5:5 · WEB
The first therefore cashes the doctrine into possessions — peace, access, standing — and then builds a chain from suffering to a hope that cannot embarrass.
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? — Romans 8:24 · WEB
Believers groan with the creation, the awaited adoption is defined as the body's redemption, and hope's grammar requires the unseen.
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence. — Psalm 42:5 · WEB
An exile remembers leading a procession he can no longer join, and asks his own soul a question three times.
Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you. — Psalm 39:7 · WEB
A man determined to say nothing finally speaks, and what comes out is a request to be shown how short his life is.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life. — Proverbs 13:12 · WEB
A chapter largely about money and discipline contains the most sympathetic sentence in the book about waiting.
looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, — Titus 2:13 · WEB
The Christian stands between two appearings — one that has happened and one awaited — and the same person is the content of both.
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love. — 1 Corinthians 13:13 · WEB
The gifts are temporary by design because they are partial, and the chapter ends by naming the three things that outlast them.
But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise. — Psalm 71:14 · WEB
An old man, watched by people waiting for him to fail, asks for time to tell one more generation.
Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield. — Psalm 33:20 · WEB
Creation by speech, and a survey of everything nations rely on that turns out not to work.