25 Bible Verses about Hope In Hard Times

{To the Chanter, a song of the children of Korah upon Alamoth} God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Pray continually.

forasmuch as ye know how that the trying of your faith bringeth patience:

Full gracious is the LORD, and a stronghold in time of trouble. He knoweth them that put their trust in him:

and let us keep the profession of our hope, without wavering - for he is faithful that promised -

which comforteth us in all our tribulation, insomuch that we are able to comfort them which are troubled, in whatsoever tribulation it be, with the same comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Turn you now to the stronghold, ye that be in prison, and long sore to be delivered: And this day I bring the word, that I will reward thee double again.

Put thy trust in the LORD with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Which Abraham, contrary to hope, believed in hope: that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, "So shall thy seed be."

O put your trust in him always, ye people; pour out your hearts before him, for God is our hope. Selah.

This understand, that in the last days shall come perilous times:

in the which time ye shall rejoice, though now for a season - if need require - ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations,

But and if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience abide for it.

Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice.

Nevertheless, though I am sometimes afraid, yet put I my trust in thee.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

'Behold, I am the LORD God of all flesh, is there anything then too hard for me?'

We are troubled on every side, yet are we not without shift. We are in poverty: but not utterly without somewhat.

These words have I spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. For in the world shall ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

and the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which peace ye are called in one body: and see that ye be thankful.

Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, nor shall be.

For I suppose that the afflictions of this life are not worthy of the glory which shall be showed upon us.

Also we received an answer of death in ourselves, and that was done because we should not put our trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead to life again -

Behold, bitter as gall was my pensiveness: so sore longed I for health. And it was thy pleasure to deliver me from the filthy pit: for thou it is, O Lord, that hath cast all my sins behind thy back.