Bible verses about hope abound from Genesis to Revelation. Here are 37 of my favorite bible verses about hope.
Enjoy!
Bible Verses About Hope — Poetic
The psalms are uplifting!
Psalm 16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will rest in hope.
Psalm 33:18 Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy.
Psalm 42:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
Psalm 119:74 Those who fear You will be glad when they see me because I have hoped in Your word.
Psalm 147:11 The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear Him, In those who hope in His mercy.
Bible Verses About Hope — Wisdom
Proverbs 10:28 The hope of the righteous is gladness, but the expectation of the wicked perishes.
Proverbs 23:18 Certainly there is a future, And your hope will not be cut off.
Ecclesiastes 9:4 For whoever is joined to all the living, there is hope; for better a live dog, than a dead lion.
Proverbs 26:12 Do you see a person wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Job 6:8 Oh, that my request might come to pass, And that God would grant my hope!
Bible Scriptures About Hope — The Prophets
Zechariah 9:12 Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
Hosea 2:15 There I will give her back her vineyards and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Isaiah 8:17 And I will wait on the Lord, who hides His face from the house of Jacob; and I will hope in Him.
Lamentations 3:26 It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the Lord.
Micah 7:7 But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Bible Verses About Hope — The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 2:26 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest in hope.
Acts 8:22 Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart.
Acts 23:6 Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, descended from Pharisees. I stand on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead.”
Bible Verses About Hope — Hebrews
Hebrews 3:6 but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are if we hold firmly to our confidence and the boast of our hope.
Hebrews 6:19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and reliable and one which enters within the veil.
Faith & Hoppe
Hebrews 10:23 Let’s hold firmly to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Bible Verses About Hope In The Book of Romans
Romans 4:18 In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”
Romans 5:2 Through whom we also have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we celebrate in hope of the glory of God.
See The Invisible
Romans 8:24 For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?
Romans 15:4 For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Verses About Hope — Corinthians
I Corinthians 9:10 Or is He speaking entirely for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing in the crops.
I Corinthians 13:13 But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Part Deux
II Corinthians 3:12 Therefore, having such hope, we use great boldness in our speech.
II Corinthians 10:15 Not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other people’s labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our domain, enlarged even more by you.
Hope Verses — GEPC
Galatians 5:5 For we, through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness.
Ephesians 2:12-13 Remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the people of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus, you who previously were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Philippians 1:20 According to my eager expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
Colossians 1:27 To whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mystery that is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Bible Verses About Hope — Peter
I Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
I Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
The Rock
I Peter 3:15 Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it.
The End
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.