Verses on Hope

When you are having trouble finding hope, allow these verses to encourage you.

•  You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety. Job 11:18 
• Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face. Job 13:15 
•  But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish. Psalm 9:18 
• No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame, but shame will come on those who are treacherous without cause. Psalm 25:3 
•  Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord. Psalm 31:24 
• Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Psalm 42:5 
•  Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him. Psalm 62:5 
•  As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more. Psalm 71:14 
•  The Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love. Psalm 147:11 
• Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion! Ecclesiastes 9:4 
• but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31 
•  You wearied yourself by such going about, but you would not say, ‘It is hopeless.’ You found renewal of your strength, and so you did not faint. Isaiah 57:10
•  Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, Lord our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this. Jeremiah 14:22 
•  For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11 
•  But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. Micah 7:7 
•  In his name the nations will put their hope. Matthew 12:21 
• And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. Romans 5:5 
• For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? Romans 8:24 
•  For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope. Romans 15:4 
• He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us. 2 Corinthians 1:10
• I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people. Ephesians 1:18
• To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27
•  For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you? 1 Thessalonians 2:19
• But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. 1 Thessalonians 5:8
•  Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. 1 Timothy 6:17
• We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized. Hebrews 6:11
•  We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain Hebrews 6:19
• Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23