Bible on Hope

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?

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.

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.

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

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.

Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

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.

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.

And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.

Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.

Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.

I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:

For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.