Bible Verses About Hope
Key Bible verses about hope include Romans 8:24, Psalms 130:5 and Psalms 42:11. Each verse is quoted below; open one to see the passages it cross-references.
For what the Bible teaches about hope as a whole, read What the Bible Says About Hope: Key Verses (2026).
Key Verses About Hope (30)
“For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?”
“I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.”
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.”
“Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.”
“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.”
“Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.”
“For my hope is in the Eternal that he will save you: and joy is come upon me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall come to you from our everlasting Saviour.”
“Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.”
“Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.”
“Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.”
“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.”
“Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.”
“For their hope is on him that saveth them, and the eyes of God are upon them that love him.”
“For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.”
“O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.”
“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.”
“Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.”
“And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.”
“That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:”
“O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?”
“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;”
“Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,”
“The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.”
“And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.”
“My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.”
“Judith said: Praise ye the Lord our God, who hath not forsaken them that hope in him.”
“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”
“Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;”
“Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:”
“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”
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