26 Bible Verses about Hope For The Righteous

The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectation of the wicked will remain unfulfilled.

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

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

But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.

Be strong and confident, all you who wait on the Lord!

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.

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

Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

For I know what I have planned for you,' says the Lord. 'I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope.

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

because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

But now, O Lord, upon what am I relying? You are my only hope!

Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.

For you give me confidence, O Lord; O Lord, I have trusted in you since I was young.

"My portion is the Lord," I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him.

I have a hope in God (a hope that these men themselves accept too) that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

Look, the Lord takes notice of his loyal followers, those who wait for him to demonstrate his faithfulness by saving their lives from death and sustaining them during times of famine. We wait for the Lord; he is our deliverer and shield.read more.
For our hearts rejoice in him, for we trust in his holy name. May we experience your faithfulness, O Lord, for we wait for you.

Your loyal followers will be glad when they see me, for I find hope in your word. I know, Lord, that your regulations are just. You disciplined me because of your faithful devotion to me. May your loyal love console me, as you promised your servant.read more.
May I experience your compassion, so I might live! For I find delight in your law. May the arrogant be humiliated, for they have slandered me! But I meditate on your precepts. May your loyal followers turn to me, those who know your rules. May I be fully committed to your statutes, so that I might not be ashamed. (Kaf) I desperately long for your deliverance. I find hope in your word.

I rely on the Lord, I rely on him with my whole being; I wait for his assuring word.

For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

Kings will be your children's guardians; their princesses will nurse your children. With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you and they will lick the dirt on your feet. Then you will recognize that I am the Lord; those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.

My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.

Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel

But those who wait for the Lord's help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles' wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired.

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,