26 Bible Verses about Hope For The Righteous

The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked will perish.

Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.

but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

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

remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

"And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

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

"The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in him."

having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.

Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love, that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the LORD; he is our help and our shield.read more.
For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name. Let your steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us, even as we hope in you.

Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice, because I have hoped in your word. I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise to your servant.read more.
Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight. Let the insolent be put to shame, because they have wronged me with falsehood; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts. Let those who fear you turn to me, that they may know your testimonies. May my heart be blameless in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame! My soul longs for your salvation; I hope in your word.

I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame."

as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,

but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,