43 Bible Verses about Hope, Nature Of

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1 Corinthians 9:10

Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop.

1 Timothy 3:14

I write these things to you, hoping to come to you soon.

Luke 6:34

And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners to be repaid in full.

Acts 24:26

At the same time he was also hoping that money would be given to him by Paul. For this reason he sent for him quite often and conversed with him.

Romans 15:24

whenever I travel to Spain. For I hope to see you when I pass through, and to be assisted by you for my journey there, once I have first enjoyed your company for a while.

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!

1 Corinthians 16:7

I don’t want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

2 Corinthians 1:13-14

Now we are writing nothing to you other than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely— as you have partially understood us—that we are your reason for pride, as you are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we seek to persuade people. We are completely open before God, and I hope we are completely open to your consciences as well.

2 Corinthians 11:1

I wish you would put up with a little foolishness from me. Yes, do put up with me.

Philippians 2:19

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon so that I also may be encouraged when I hear news about you.

Ruth 1:12

Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,

2 Kings 4:28

Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”

Jeremiah 23:16

This is what the Lord of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are making you worthless. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the Lord’s mouth.

Job 8:13-14

Such is the destiny of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless will perish.
His source of confidence is fragile;
what he trusts in is a spider’s web.

Jeremiah 50:7

All who found them devoured them.
Their adversaries said, “We’re not guilty;
instead, they have sinned against the Lord,
their righteous grazing land,
the hope of their ancestors, the Lord.”

Job 30:26

But when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, darkness came.

Jeremiah 8:15

We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good;
for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

Job 6:19-20

The caravans of Tema look for these streams.
The traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them.
They are ashamed because they had been confident of finding water.
When they arrive there, they are frustrated.

Job 14:7-12

There is hope for a tree:
If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and its shoots will not die.
If its roots grow old in the ground
and its stump starts to die in the soil,
the smell of water makes it thrive
and produce twigs like a sapling.
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But a man dies and fades away;
he breathes his last—where is he?
As water disappears from the sea
and a river becomes parched and dry,
so man lies down never to rise again.
They will not wake up until the heavens are no more;
they will not stir from their sleep.

Job 19:10

He tears me down on every side so that I am ruined.
He uproots my hope like a tree.

Job 27:8

For what hope does the godless man have when he is cut off,
when God takes away his life?

Isaiah 38:18

For Sheol cannot thank You;
Death cannot praise You.
Those who go down to the Pit
cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God
before He brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the mountains at dusk.
You wait for light,
but He brings darkest gloom
and makes thick darkness.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You completely rejected Judah?
Do You detest Zion?
Why do You strike us
with no hope of healing for us?
We hoped for peace,
but there was nothing good;
for a time of healing,
but there was only terror.

Lamentations 3:18

Then I thought: My future is lost,
as well as my hope from the Lord.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look how they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

Zechariah 9:5

Ashkelon will see it and be afraid;
Gaza too, and will writhe in great pain,
as will Ekron, for her hope will fail.
There will cease to be a king in Gaza,
and Ashkelon will become uninhabited.

Luke 24:21

But we were hoping that He was the One who was about to redeem Israel. Besides all this, it’s the third day since these things happened.

Proverbs 24:19-20

Don’t be agitated by evildoers,
and don’t envy the wicked.
For the evil have no future;
the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Luke 20:20

They watched closely and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, so they could catch Him in what He said, to hand Him over to the governor’s rule and authority.

Luke 23:8

Herod was very glad to see Jesus; for a long time he had wanted to see Him because he had heard about Him and was hoping to see some miracle performed by Him.

Acts 16:19

When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

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