43 Bible Verses about Hope, Nature Of
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Isn't he really speaking for our benefit? Yes, this was written for our benefit, because the one who plows should plow in hope, and the one who threshes should thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.
If you lend to those from whom you expect to get something back, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back what they lend.
At the same time he was hoping to receive a bribe from Paul, and so he would send for him frequently to talk with him.
Now that I am on my way to Spain, I hope to see you when I come your way and, after I have enjoyed your company for a while, to be sent on by you.
But I have not used any of these rights, and I'm not writing this so that they may be applied in my case. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.
I do not want to visit with you now just in passing, because I hope to spend a longer time with you if the Lord permits.
For what we are writing you is nothing more than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely, just as you have already understood us partially, so that on the Day of our Lord Jesus we can be your reason to boast, even as you are ours.
Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade people. We ourselves are perfectly known to God. I hope we are also really known to your consciences.
I wish you would tolerate a little of my foolishness. Yes, please tolerate me!
Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon so that I can be encouraged when I learn of your condition.
So go on back, my daughters! Be on your way! I'm too old to remarry. If I were to say that I'm hoping for a husband tonight and then also bore sons this very night,
Then she asked, "Did I ask my lord for a son? Didn't I beg you, "Don't mislead me?'"
Discipline your son while there is still hope but don't set your heart on his destruction.
It is vain to trust in a horse for deliverance, even with its great strength, it cannot deliver.
This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Don't listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you; they're giving you false hopes. They declare visions from their own minds they don't come from the LORD!
Such are the paths of everyone who forgets God the hope of the godless will be destroyed: his confidence is shattered; his trust is in a spider's web.
But what the wicked look for will fail; their way of escape will be taken away from them; their only hope is to take their final breath."
Do you see a man who is wise in his own opinion? There's more hope for a fool than for him.
All who find them devour them, but their enemies say, "We're not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their ancestors.'
Tell those who are rich in this age not to be arrogant and not to place their confidence in anything as uncertain as riches. Instead, let them place their confidence in God, who lavishly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
We waited for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but instead there was terror.
Travelers from Tema search intently; caravans from Sheba hope to find them. For all their expectations, they are doomed to disappointment; even though they have come and searched this far.
"There is hope for the tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots won't stop growing. Even if its roots have grown ancient in the earth, and its stump begins to rot in the ground, the presence of water will make it to bud so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant.read more.
"But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be? As water disappears from the sea, or water evaporates from a river, so also a person lies down and does not get up; they won't awaken until the heavens are no more, nor will they arise from their sleep."
He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree.
For Sheol cannot thank you, death cannot sing your praise; and those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.
Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. You hope for light, but he turns it into deep darkness. He changes it into heavy gloom.
Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you despise Zion? Why have you struck us, so that there is no healing for us? We hoped for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
So I say, "My strength is gone as is my hope in the LORD."
"These bones represent the entire house of Israel," the LORD explained to me. "Look how they keep saying, "Our bones are dried up, and our future is lost. We've been completely eliminated!'
Ashkelon will see it happen and will be terrified; Gaza will tremble greatly. Ekron will be ashamed of her expectations, Gaza's king will perish, and Ashkelon will become uninhabited.
But we kept hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel. What is more, this is now the third day since these things occurred.
But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve like other people who have no hope.
When a wicked person dies, his hope vanishes; and what he expected from his scheming comes to nothing.
Don't be anxious about those who practice evil, and don't be envious of the wicked. For the wicked man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
So they watched him closely and sent spies who pretended to be honest men in order to trap him in what he would say. They wanted to hand him over to the jurisdiction of the governor,
Now Herod was very glad to see Jesus, because he had been wanting to see him for a long time on account of what he had heard about him. He was also hoping to see some sign done by him.
When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities who met together in the public square.
