26 Bible Verses about Hope For The Righteous

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

For surely there is a future hope; and your expectation 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 give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped 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 everlasting encouragement and good hope through grace,

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

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

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

And now, Lord, what do I wait for? my hope is in you.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

For you are my hope, O Lord GOD: you are my trust from my youth.

The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in 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 them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.read more.
For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. Let your mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in you.

They that fear you will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in your word. I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right, and that you in faithfulness have afflicted me. Let, I pray you, your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to your word unto your servant.read more.
Let your tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for your law is my delight. Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts. Let those that fear you turn unto me, and those that have known your testimonies. Let my heart be sound in your statutes; that I be not ashamed. [Kaph] My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word.

I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, and in his word do I hope.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

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 heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their 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 abides faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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