'Hope' in the Bible

Is God simply thinking about the oxen? Or is it really in our interest that He speaks? Of course, it was written in our interest, because it is His will that when a plough-man ploughs, and a thresher threshes, it should be in the hope of sharing that which comes as the result.

Though free from all human control, I have made myself the slave of all in the hope of winning as many converts as possible.

To the weak I have become weak, so as to gain the weak. To all men I have become all things, in the hope that in every one of these ways I may save some.

That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, in the hope that they may be saved.

She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance.

And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love.

If in this present life we have a *hope* resting on Christ, and nothing more, we are more to be pitied than all the rest of the world.

For I do not wish to see you on this occasion merely in passing; but if the Lord permits, I hope to remain some time with you.