26 Bible Verses about Hope For The Righteous

The hope of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked shall perish.

For surely there is an end, and thy hope shall not be cut off.

For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to respond to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and reverence,

Be of good courage and strengthen your hearts, all ye that wait in the LORD.

Faith, therefore, is the substance of things waited for, the evidence of things not seen.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God, even our Father, who has loved us and has given us eternal consolation and good hope through grace,

who by him do believe God, who raised him up from the dead and has given him glory: that your faith and hope might be in God.

For I know the thoughts that I think concerning you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you the end that you wait for.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

remembering without ceasing the work of your faith and labour and charity and of waiting with the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father,

And now, Lord, what shall I wait for? My hope is in thee.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Wait for God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the saving health of my countenance and my God.

For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD; thou art my security from my youth.

Chet The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore I will wait for him.

and have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon those that fear him, upon those that wait for his mercy to deliver their souls from death and to keep them alive in the famine. Our soul waited for the LORD; he is our help and our shield.read more.
Therefore our heart shall rejoice in him because we have trusted in the name of his holiness. Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we have waited upon thee.

Those that fear thee will be glad when they see me because I have waited on thy word. I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. Let, I pray thee, thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy spoken word unto thy slave.read more.
Let thy mercy come unto me, that I may live, for thy law is my delight. Let the proud be ashamed, for they dealt perversely with me without a cause, but I will meditate in thy precepts. Let those that fear thee turn unto me and those that have known thy testimonies. Let my heart be perfect in thy statutes that I not be ashamed. CAPH. My soul faints with desire for thy salvation as I await thy word.

I have waited for the LORD, my soul has waited, and for his word I have waited.

For the things that were written beforehand were written for our instruction that we, through patient endurance and through the comfort of the scriptures, might have hope.

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers and their princesses thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for those that wait for me shall not be ashamed.

according to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.

for the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which ye have already heard by the word of the truth of the gospel,

but those that wait for the LORD shall have new strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

And now abide faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Christ, who according to his great mercy has begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus, the Christ, from the dead,