140 Bible Verses About Hope

140 Bible Verses About Hope

All Scriptures are from the New International Version.

01| Romans 8:24

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all.

02| Proverbs 23:18

There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.

03| Job 17:15

Where then is my hope— who can see any hope for me?

04| Proverbs 24:14

Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.

05| Romans 5:4

Perseverance, character; and character, hope.

06| Matthew 12:21

In his name the nations will put their hope.

07| Romans 12:12

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

08| Proverbs 10:28

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.

09| 1 Timothy 6:17

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

10| Romans 4:18

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.

11| Romans 15:13

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

12| Psalms 119:114

You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word.

13| 1 Corinthians 13:7

Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

14| Psalms 25:21

May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, LORD, is in you.

15| Psalms 131:3

Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore.

16| Hebrews 10:23

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

17| Philippians 2:23

I hope, therefore, to send him as soon as I see how things go with me.

18| Psalms 33:20

We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield.

19| Romans 11:14

In the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them.

20| Isaiah 19:9

Those who work with combed flax will despair, the weavers of fine linen will lose hope.

21| Ephesians 1:12

In order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.

22| Jeremiah 31:17

So there is hope for your descendants, declares the LORD . “Your children will return to their own land.”

23| Psalms 147:11

The LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.

24| Psalms 62:5

Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him.

25| Psalms 130:5

I wait for the LORD, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.

26| Job 14:7

“At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

27| Psalms 9:18

But God will never forget the needy; the hope of the afflicted will never perish.

28| 2 Corinthians 3:12

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.

29| Romans 8:25

But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

30| Acts 2:26

Therefore, my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest in hope.

31| Psalms 71:5

For you have been my hope, Sovereign LORD, my confidence since my youth.

32| Psalms 119:147

I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word.

33| Job 11:18

You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety.

34| Lamentations 3:25

The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him.

35| Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

36| Psalms 146:5

Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God.

37| Proverbs 19:18

Discipline your children, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to their death.

38| Isaiah 42:4

In his teaching the islands will put their hope.

39| Proverbs 29:20

There is more hope for a fool than for them.

40| 1 Corinthians 13:13

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

41| 1 Corinthians 15:19

If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.

42| Proverbs 11:7

Hopes placed in mortals die with them; all the promise of their power comes to nothing.

43| Psalms 31:24

Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD.

44| Job 5:16

So, the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

45| Galatians 5:5

For through the Spirit, we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope.

46| Psalms 130:7

Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.

47| 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.

48| Hebrews 6:19

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.

49| 1 Timothy 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Saviour and of Christ Jesus our hope.

50| Titus 1:2

In the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time.

51| Psalms 71:14

As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more.

52| Psalms 119:81

My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word.

53| Psalms 33:17

A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save.

54| Proverbs 11:23

The desire of the righteous ends only in good, but the hope of the wicked only in wrath.

55|Psalms 37:9

For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

56| 1 John 3:3

All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

57| Proverbs 24:20

For the evildoer has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

58| Acts 24:15

And I have the same hope in God as these men themselves have, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

59| Job 6:8

“Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for.

60| Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp.

61| Psalms 119:49

Remember your word to your servant, for you have given me hope.

62| Psalms 39:7

My hope is in you.

63| Job 27:8

For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?

64| Psalms 33:18

But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love.

65| Job 8:13

Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.

66| Lamentations 3:21

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope.

67| Psalms 33:22

May your unfailing love be with us, LORD, even as we put our hope in you.

68| Job 4:6

Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?

69| 1 Peter 1:3

In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

70| Acts 16:19

When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities.

71| Isaiah 40:31

But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

72| Job 13:15

Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.

73| Acts 24:26

At the same time he was hoping that Paul would offer him a bribe, so he sent for him frequently and talked with him.

74| Ephesians 4:4

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called.

75| John 5:45

Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set.

76|Romans 15:12

And again, Isaiah says, “The Root of Jesse will spring up, one who will arise to rule over the nations; in him the Gentiles will hope.”

77| Psalms 65:5

You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds, God our Saviour, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.

78| Ecclesiastes 9:4

Anyone who is among the living has hope —even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

79| Psalms 119:74

May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word.

80| Zechariah 9:12

Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.

81| 1 Chronicles 29:15

Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

82| Romans 5:2

And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

83| Luke 24:21

But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.

84| Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

85| Psalms 25:5

Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Saviour, and my hope is in you all day long.

86| Acts 26:6

And now it is because of my hope in what God has promised our ancestors that I am on trial today.

87| Psalms 62:10

Do not trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

88| Psalms 25:3

No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame, but shame will come on those who are treacherous without cause.

89| Colossians 1:27

To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

90| Romans 15:4

For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

91| Titus 2:13

While we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

92| Micah 7:7

But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Saviour; my God will hear me.

93| 2 Timothy 2:25

Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth.

94| Psalms 37:34

Hope in the LORD and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.

95| Titus 3:7

So that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.

96| Acts 28:20

It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

97| 1 Peter 3:5

For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves.

98| Psalms 119:43

Never take your word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in your laws.

99| 1 Thessalonians 5:8

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

100| Psalms 119:116

Sustain me, my God, according to your promise, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed.

101| 1 Thessalonians 2:19

For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes?

102| 1 Corinthians 16:7

For I do not want to see you now and make only a passing visit; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.

103| 2 Thessalonians 2:16

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope.

104| Psalms 69:6

Lord, the LORD Almighty, may those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me; God of Israel, may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me.

105| Isaiah 51:5

The islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm.

106| Isaiah 38:18

For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

107| Hebrews 6:18

God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged.

108| Colossians 1:5

The faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel.

109| Psalms 43:5

Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God.

110| 2 Corinthians 1:10

On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us.

111| Philippians 1:20

I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

112| Ephesians 1:18

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people.

113| Romans 5:5

And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

114| Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

115| 1 Peter 3:15

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.

116| Psalms 52:9

And I will hope in your name, for your name is good.

117| Jeremiah 17:13

LORD, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame.

118| 1 Peter 1:21

Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.

119| 1 Timothy 5:5

The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help.

120| Psalms 42:11

Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God.

121| 2 Corinthians 1:7

And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

122| Ephesians 2:12

Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

123|1 Thessalonians 1:3

We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labour prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

124| 1 Peter 1:13

Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.

125| Hebrews 3:6

And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.

126| 2 Corinthians 5:11

What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.

127| Psalms 42:5

Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God.

128|1 Timothy 4:10

That is why we labour and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all people, and especially of those who believe.

130| 1 Corinthians 9:10

Yes, this was written for us, because whoever ploughs and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.

131| Acts 12:11

Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.”

132| Luke 23:8

From what he had heard about him, he hoped to see him perform a sign of some sort.

133| 2 John 1:12

Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

134| Colossians 1:23

If you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel.

135| 1 Thessalonians 4:13

Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.

136| Acts 23:6

I stand on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead.

137| Jeremiah 14:22

Therefore, our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this.

138| Isaiah 49:23

Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.

139| 2 Corinthians 10:15

Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow, our sphere of activity among you will greatly expand.

140| Ezra 10:2

But in spite of this, there is still hope for Israel.