SinaiBible verses about Hope
Where hope comes from, how it survives waiting and suffering, and what it is finally anchored to.
100 verses in 10 themes · World English Bible
Where Hope Comes From
Hope set on God Himself rather than on an outcome.
Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.
For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.
I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.
Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,
Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield. For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped in you.
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.
“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
Hope in God's Promises
Confidence that what God has said will hold.
let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Nothing failed of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.
“Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.
You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.
Hope in Suffering
What hardship produces rather than destroys.
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope. It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory, while we don’t look 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.
Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials, that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Waiting on the Lord
Hope stretched over time, when nothing seems to be moving.
Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
When You Feel Hopeless
Honest prayers from people at the bottom.
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit. Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.
The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life. Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
A Living Hope in Christ
Hope with a name attached to it.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;
to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;
Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”
The Hope of Eternal Life
What Christians expect on the far side of death.
“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”
But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is. Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
Hope for Your Future
God's intentions toward the days you haven't lived yet.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh. “Your children will come again to their own territory.
Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.
so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.
“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
Hope That Encourages Others
Carrying hope outward — to the discouraged and the curious.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News
There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.
Holding On to Hope
Refusing to let go when hope is deferred.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.