26 Bible Verses about Hope For The Righteous

The hope of the righteous is joyful, And the expectation of the wicked perisheth.

For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.

for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And be ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

Be strong, and He strengtheneth your heart, All ye who are waiting for Jehovah!

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you -- an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

Hope prolonged is making the heart sick, And a tree of life is the coming desire.

unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,

And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope -- it is of Thee.

What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!

For Thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my youth.

My portion is Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him.

having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

Lo, the eye of Jehovah is to those fearing Him, To those waiting for His kindness, To deliver from death their soul, And to keep them alive in famine. Our soul hath waited for Jehovah, Our help and our shield is He,read more.
For in Him doth our heart rejoice, For in His holy name we have trusted. Let Thy kindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, As we have waited for Thee!

Those fearing Thee see me and rejoice, Because for Thy word I have hoped. I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me. Let, I pray Thee, Thy kindness be to comfort me, According to Thy saying to Thy servant.read more.
Meet me do Thy mercies, and I live, For Thy law is my delight. Ashamed are the proud, For with falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate in Thy precepts. Those fearing Thee turn back to me, And those knowing Thy testimonies. My heart is perfect in Thy statutes, So that I am not ashamed. Kaph. Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have hoped.

I hoped for Jehovah -- hoped hath my soul, And for His word I have waited.

for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

And kings have been thy nursing fathers, And their princesses thy nursing mothers; Face to the earth -- they bow down to thee, And the dust of thy feet they lick up, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah, That those expecting Me are not ashamed.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,

because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,

But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,