100 Bible Verses about Hold On To Hope

Romans 15:13 ESV / 17 helpful votes

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Romans 15:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Hebrews 3:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes

But Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

Romans 12:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 11 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Psalm 33:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,

Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

Hebrews 6:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes

We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,

1 Thessalonians 5:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

Romans 8:24-25 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Proverbs 24:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Psalm 39:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Titus 2:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

1 John 3:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

Titus 1:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

2 Thessalonians 2:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 1:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes

To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Galatians 5:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Zechariah 9:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Psalm 71:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more.

1 Peter 1:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Hebrews 6:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

Hebrews 6:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,

Titus 3:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Colossians 1:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,

Philippians 1:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

Ephesians 1:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

2 Corinthians 3:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,

Romans 4:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

Acts 24:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.

Proverbs 23:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 10:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked will perish.

Psalm 146:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Psalm 71:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.

Psalm 43:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

Hebrews 6:18-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,

1 Timothy 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Colossians 1:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

Ephesians 2:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

1 Corinthians 15:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.

Romans 8:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?

Romans 5:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

Romans 5:2-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Romans 5:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Acts 23:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”

Joel 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the Lord is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.

Psalm 119:81 ESV / 5 helpful votes

My soul longs for your salvation; I hope in your word.

Psalm 119:74 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice, because I have hoped in your word.

Psalm 33:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.

Psalm 9:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

1 Timothy 4:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

John 14:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Micah 7:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

Lamentations 3:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Jeremiah 17:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.

Isaiah 38:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness.

Ecclesiastes 9:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Proverbs 14:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.

Psalm 119:116 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope!

Psalm 119:114 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word.

Psalm 38:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But for you, O Lord, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.

Psalm 33:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and our shield.

Job 13:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.

Job 8:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 10:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged,

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. ...

Romans 5:1-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Acts 28:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For this reason, therefore, I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am wearing this chain.”

Zechariah 9:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded. The king shall perish from Gaza; Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;

Hosea 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

Lamentations 3:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”

Lamentations 3:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 14:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.

Isaiah 49:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”

Isaiah 42:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Proverbs 24:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Proverbs 11:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When the wicked dies, his hope will perish, and the expectation of wealth perishes too.

Psalm 147:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.

Psalm 130:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption.

Psalm 119:49 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope.

Psalm 62:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.

Psalm 42:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

Psalm 25:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

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