26 Bible Verses about Hope For The Righteous

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

For surely there is an end; and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

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

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.

Be of good courage, and he will strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.

The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

And have hope towards God, which they themselves also allow, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.read more.
For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word. I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word to thy servant.read more.
Let thy tender mercies come to me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight. Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts. Let those that fear thee turn to me, and those that have known thy testimonies. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I may not be ashamed. CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

For whatever things were written formerly, were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow to thee with their face towards the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

According to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which ye have heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,