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Bible Verses About Hope
Renew your hope with these uplifting scriptures about God's promises, eternal hope, and finding hope in difficult times.
Many of the Bible's strongest words about hope were written from inside hard situations: a ruined city, exile, prison. These verses are grouped from hope when it is thin, to hope placed in God, to the living hope of the New Testament.
Hope verses, grouped by need
Bible verses about hope in hard times
Hope spoken from inside difficulty, not after it.
“This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.”
The turning point of Lamentations 3, written after Jerusalem fell.
“It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.”
What the writer calls to mind.
“The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.”
The LORD as his portion.
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.”
Hope thou in God.
“I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.”
David on what kept him from fainting.
“Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.”
Micah watches and waits in a time of widespread corruption.
“I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.”
From a Song of degrees prayed out of the depths.
“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”
Hope for what is not yet seen, with patience.
“For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.”
Your expectation shall not be cut off.
Hope in God
Where hope is placed, in the Psalms and the prophets.
“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.”
Paul calls God "the God of hope."
“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.”
Written to exiles in Babylon about their future.
“And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.”
What do I wait for? My hope is in thee.
“For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.”
Hope since youth, in a psalm by an older believer.
“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.”
Hope that does not disappoint.
“Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.”
Blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD.
“Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.”
A prayer for mercy matched to hope.
“Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:”
Happy is he whose hope is in the LORD.
“Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.”
Courage for all who hope.
“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.”
Those who wait on the LORD renew their strength.
A living hope
New Testament hope rooted in the resurrection.
“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,”
Peter opens his letter with a lively, or living, hope.
“Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;”
Hope pictured as an anchor for the soul.
“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;”
The blessed hope Paul tells Titus to look for.
“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:”
Christ in you, the hope of glory.
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
The opening definition in the chapter on faith.
“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
Present sufferings weighed against future glory.
“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
Looking at what is not seen.
“And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.”
Behold, I make all things new.
“Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)”
Hold fast, because he is faithful.
“Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;”
Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation.
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
Faith, hope and love.
More Bible verses about hope
Further verses from this topic's original selection.
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
All things work together for good
Hope in the Bible is not wishful thinking
In Scripture hope is confident expectation based on God's character and promises. That is why so many hope verses mention waiting, patience and God's faithfulness alongside it.
Questions about hope
What is the best Bible verse about hope?
Romans 15:13, Jeremiah 29:11, Lamentations 3:21-23 and Hebrews 6:19 are among the most loved verses about hope.