Bible Verses About Hope

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

Written to exiles facing seventy years far from home. God’s intentions toward His people are peace, even when the timeline is long.

“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.”

Hope is something God fills you with, not something you scrape together. The verse is a prayer you can borrow word for word.

“This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.”

Hope from the middle of a national catastrophe, produced by deliberate remembering. The mercies are new every single morning.

“Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;”

An anchor works in a storm, not instead of one. Hope holds the soul steady because it is fastened to something unmovable.

“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.”

The psalmist argues with his own despair. “Yet” is the key word: praise is coming, even if it has not arrived.

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

Waiting on God is not wasted time; it is where strength gets renewed. Some seasons soar, and some just keep walking.

“And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 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.”

A supply chain that ends in hope and starts, surprisingly, in trouble. Nothing in your hard season is wasted.

“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? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”

By definition, hope operates where you cannot yet see results. Not seeing anything change yet is normal, not failure.

“I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.”

Hope needs an object, and here it is God’s word: what He has actually said, not what circumstances suggest.

“Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.”

Spoken while everything around the prophet was falling apart. Three decisions in one verse: look, wait, and expect to be heard.

“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.”

Scripture names how much deferred hope hurts. If waiting has made your heart sick, the Bible said it would; you are not broken.

“But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.”

The psalm of an old man who has seen much trouble. Hope here is a settled practice, renewed on purpose, day after day.