Bible verses about hope
Verses for holding on, and what Scripture promises to those who wait on the Lord.
The best-known verses about hope
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- Jer 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
- Rom 15:13
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
- Rom 5:5
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
- Rom 8:24
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
- Rom 8:25
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
- Rom 12:12
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
- Isa 40:31
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
- Ps 39:7
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
- Ps 42:5
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
- Ps 62:5
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
- Ps 71:5
For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.
- Ps 130:5
I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
- Lam 3:24
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
- Lam 3:25
The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
- Heb 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
- Heb 6:19
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
- Heb 10:23
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
- 1 Pet 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- 1 Cor 13:13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
- Prov 23:18
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
- Titus 2:13
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
- Job 11:18
And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
- Mic 7:7
Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
More verses about hope
20 further passages on the same theme.
- Ps 5:3
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
- Ps 9:18
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
- Ps 14:6
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.
- Prov 10:28
The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
- Prov 11:7
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
- Prov 11:23
The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
- Isa 5:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
- Isa 8:17
And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
- Isa 20:5
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
- Matt 7:4
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
- Matt 24:50
The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
- Mark 14:34
And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.
- Luke 1:21
And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.
- Luke 3:15
And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;
- Luke 12:46
The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
- John 5:3
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
- Rom 4:18
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
- Rom 5:2
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- 1 Cor 1:7
So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
- 1 Cor 9:10
Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.