17 Bible Verses about Hope In Hard Times

Be unceasing in prayer.

Be assured that the testing of your faith leads to power of endurance.

Let us hold firmly to an unflinching avowal of our hope, for He is faithful who gave us the promises.

He comforts us in our every affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction by means of the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Under utterly hopeless circumstances he hopefully believed, so that he might become the forefather of many nations, in agreement with the words "Equally numerous shall your posterity be."

But of this be assured: in the last days grievous times will set in.

Rejoice triumphantly in the prospect of this, even if now, for a short time, you are compelled to sorrow amid various trials.

But if we hope for something which we do not see, then we eagerly and patiently wait for it.

Always be glad in the Lord: I will repeat it, be glad.

In conclusion, strengthen yourselves in the Lord and in the power which His supreme might imparts.

We are hard pressed, yet never in absolute distress; perplexed, yet never utterly baffled;

"I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory over the world."

and let the peace which Christ gives settle all questionings in your hearts, to which peace indeed you were called as belonging to His one Body; and be thankful.

Jesus looked at them and said, "With men this is impossible, but with God everything is possible."

for it will be a time of great suffering, such as never has been from the beginning of the world till now, and assuredly never will be again.

Why, what we now suffer I count as nothing in comparison with the glory which is soon to be manifested in us.

Nay, we had, as we still have, the sentence of death within our own selves, in order that our confidence may repose, not on ourselves, but on God who raised the dead to life.