43 Bible Verses about Hope, Nature Of

Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.

I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you before long;

If you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners in order to receive back the same amount.

At the same time too, he was hoping that money would be given him by Paul; therefore he also used to send for him quite often and converse with him.

whenever I go to Spain—for I hope to see you in passing, and to be helped on my way there by you, when I have first enjoyed your company for a while—

But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one.

For I do not wish to see you now just in passing; for I hope to remain with you for some time, if the Lord permits.

For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end; just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I also may be encouraged when I learn of your condition.

Return, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight and also bear sons,

Then she said, “Did I ask for a son from my lord? Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”

Discipline your son while there is hope,
And do not desire his death.

if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them.

A horse is a false hope for victory;
Nor does it deliver anyone by its great strength.

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.
They are leading you into futility;
They speak a vision of their own imagination,
Not from the mouth of the Lord.

“So are the paths of all who forget God;
And the hope of the godless will perish,
Whose confidence is fragile,
And whose trust a spider’s web.

“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And there will be no escape for them;
And their hope is to breathe their last.”

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.

“All who came upon them have devoured them;
And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty,
Inasmuch as they have sinned against the Lord who is the habitation of righteousness,
Even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’

Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.

“When I expected good, then evil came;
When I waited for light, then darkness came.

We waited for peace, but no good came;
For a time of healing, but behold, terror!

“The caravans of Tema looked,
The travelers of Sheba hoped for them.
“They were disappointed for they had trusted,
They came there and were confounded.

“For there is hope for a tree,
When it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And its shoots will not fail.
“Though its roots grow old in the ground
And its stump dies in the dry soil,
At the scent of water it will flourish
And put forth sprigs like a plant.
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“But man dies and lies prostrate.
Man expires, and where is he?
“As water evaporates from the sea,
And a river becomes parched and dried up,
So man lies down and does not rise.
Until the heavens are no longer,
He will not awake nor be aroused out of his sleep.

“He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone;
And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

“For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off,
When God requires his life?

“For Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

Give glory to the Lord your God,
Before He brings darkness
And before your feet stumble
On the dusky mountains,
And while you are hoping for light
He makes it into deep darkness,
And turns it into gloom.

Have You completely rejected Judah?
Or have You loathed Zion?
Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing?
We waited for peace, but nothing good came;
And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!

So I say, “My strength has perished,
And so has my hope from the Lord.”

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.’

Ashkelon will see it and be afraid.
Gaza too will writhe in great pain;
Also Ekron, for her expectation has been confounded.
Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza,
And Ashkelon will not be inhabited.

But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, it is the third day since these things happened.

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.

The hope of the righteous is gladness,
But the expectation of the wicked perishes.

When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish,
And the hope of strong men perishes.

Do not fret because of evildoers
Or be envious of the wicked;
For there will be no future for the evil man;
The lamp of the wicked will be put out.

So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, in order that they might catch Him in some statement, so that they could deliver Him to the rule and the authority of the governor.

Now Herod was very glad when he saw Jesus; for he had wanted to see Him for a long time, because he had been hearing about Him and was hoping to see some sign performed by Him.

But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the authorities,