20 Bible Verses About Hope (KJV)
Biblical hope is not wishful thinking — it is confident expectation resting on God's character and promises, "an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast." These twenty verses gather Scripture's strongest words for the discouraged and the waiting.
“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.”Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV)
“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.”Romans 15:13 (KJV)
“And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.”Psalms 39:7 (KJV)
“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?”Romans 8:24 (KJV)
“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”Romans 8:25 (KJV)
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)
“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.”Psalms 42:11 (KJV)
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.”Psalms 42:5 (KJV)
“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.”Romans 5:5 (KJV)
“The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.”Lamentations 3:24 (KJV)
“The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.”Lamentations 3:25 (KJV)
“But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.”Psalms 71:14 (KJV)
“I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.”Psalms 130:5 (KJV)
“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.”Proverbs 13:12 (KJV)
“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;”Titus 2:13 (KJV)
“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,”1 Peter 1:3 (KJV)
“Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;”Hebrews 6:19 (KJV)
“Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.”Micah 7:7 (KJV)
“Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;”Psalms 33:18 (KJV)
“Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;”Romans 12:12 (KJV)
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