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100 Bible Verses about Hope

Romans 15:13 ESV / 9,208 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.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 9,199 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.

Romans 12:12 ESV / 6,763 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 6,439 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 6,422 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.

1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 4,549 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 / 4,410 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.

Romans 8:24-25 ESV / 4,283 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.

Colossians 1:27 ESV / 3,972 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.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 3,891 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.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 3,851 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:25 ESV / 3,589 helpful votes

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

Psalm 39:7 ESV / 3,579 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 3,421 helpful votes

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Proverbs 23:18 ESV / 3,246 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 24:14 ESV / 3,147 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.

Romans 5:2-5 ESV / 3,146 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.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 3,140 helpful votes

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 3,037 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 2,932 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,

Psalm 119:114 ESV / 2,904 helpful votes

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

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 2,868 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 1:18 ESV / 2,836 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,

Lamentations 3:24 ESV / 2,835 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 ESV / 2,804 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.

Psalm 71:5 ESV / 2,744 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 2,737 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.

Jeremiah 17:7 ESV / 2,619 helpful votes

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

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 2,605 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Psalm 130:5 ESV / 2,592 helpful votes

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;

Psalm 33:22 ESV / 2,563 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:12 ESV / 2,491 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:8 ESV / 2,453 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.

Titus 3:7 ESV / 2,393 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:24 ESV / 2,358 helpful votes

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

Psalm 33:18 ESV / 2,302 helpful votes

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

Mark 9:23 ESV / 2,286 helpful votes

And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”

Psalm 71:14 ESV / 2,273 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 6:19 ESV / 2,269 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,

Titus 2:13 ESV / 2,232 helpful votes

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

Psalm 42:11 ESV / 2,193 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.

1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 2,176 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.

Psalm 147:11 ESV / 2,076 helpful votes

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

John 3:16 ESV / 2,028 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Galatians 5:5 ESV / 2,023 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:28 ESV / 1,996 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 1,987 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.

Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 1,984 helpful votes

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

Micah 7:7 ESV / 1,952 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.

Psalm 9:18 ESV / 1,878 helpful votes

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

1 John 3:3 ESV / 1,843 helpful votes

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

Titus 1:1-2 ESV / 1,788 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

Titus 1:2 ESV / 1,785 helpful votes

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

Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 1,748 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.

1 Corinthians 15:19 ESV / 1,700 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:3-4 ESV / 1,688 helpful votes

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 1,663 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Romans 5:2 ESV / 1,634 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.

Job 11:18 ESV / 1,615 helpful votes

And you will feel secure, because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest in security.

1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 1,584 helpful votes

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

Psalm 146:5 ESV / 1,573 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 3:6 ESV / 1,532 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.

1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 1,530 helpful votes

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

Psalm 62:5 ESV / 1,504 helpful votes

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

Psalm 25:5 ESV / 1,487 helpful votes

Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 1,424 helpful votes

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

Romans 8:18 ESV / 1,409 helpful votes

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Psalm 10:17 ESV / 1,393 helpful votes

O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear

Hebrews 6:18-19 ESV / 1,377 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,

Matthew 25:21 ESV / 1,318 helpful votes

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 1,316 helpful votes

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 ESV / 1,302 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.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 1,299 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 3:12 ESV / 1,256 helpful votes

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

Psalm 130:7 ESV / 1,254 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:81 ESV / 1,241 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV / 1,238 helpful votes

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.

Psalm 43:5 ESV / 1,237 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.

1 Peter 1:21 ESV / 1,205 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.

1 Timothy 1:1 ESV / 1,196 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 1,157 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Joel 3:16 ESV / 1,154 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.

Proverbs 10:28 ESV / 1,134 helpful votes

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

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 1,134 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Colossians 1:23 ESV / 1,101 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.

Romans 4:18 ESV / 1,071 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.”

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 1,056 helpful votes

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Matthew 12:21 ESV / 1,024 helpful votes

And in his name the Gentiles will hope.”

Zechariah 9:12 ESV / 1,020 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 6:11 ESV / 1,003 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 2:12 ESV / 980 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.

Colossians 1:5 ESV / 977 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,

Job 13:15 ESV / 963 helpful votes

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

Lamentations 3:21 ESV / 957 helpful votes

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

Acts 24:15 ESV / 916 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.

Colossians 3:1-2 ESV / 909 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

John 14:27 ESV / 892 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Psalm 38:15 ESV / 886 helpful votes

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

Psalm 78:7 ESV / 884 helpful votes

So that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;

Galatians 6:8 ESV / 868 helpful votes

For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

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