Hope: General Scriptures Concerning

For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell securely.

Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the LORD.

Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion

May Your loving devotion rest on us, O LORD, as we put our hope in You.

I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.

And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.

But I will always hope and will praise You more and more.

For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children, …

May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.

My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

Sustain me as You promised, that I may live; let me not be ashamed of my hope.

I wait for Your salvation, O LORD, and I carry out Your commandments.

O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,

The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectations of the wicked will perish.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.

For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.

Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”

It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.

Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.

Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”

I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

…and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

…the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.

Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

…through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. …

For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?

But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.

For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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

If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.

But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the hope of righteousness.

I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;

And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

…the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of truth, the gospel

…if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

…and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,

…in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

…as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.

…so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.

We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure.

Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,

Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.

But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you. But respond with gentleness and respect,

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.