Bible Verses About Hope: General Scriptures Concerning

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

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

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

Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

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

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

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

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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

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

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

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

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

Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.

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

Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

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

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

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

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

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

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

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

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

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

And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

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.

Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

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.

By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

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.

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?

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

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

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

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.

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

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