4 Bible Verses about Hope, Results Of Its Absence

For we wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were exceedingly oppressed beyond our power, so that we despaired even of life;

And in those days men shall seek death and not find it, and shall desire to die and death flee from them.

And neither sun nor stars appearing for many days, and no slight storm being upon us, at last all hope that we should be saved was taken away.

And throwing down the silver in the temple he departed; and having gone away strangled himself.