Bible Verses About Hope

In the Bible, hope looks forward because it first looks back: God has been faithful before, so his people can wait for him again. The prophets spoke hope to exiles far from home, the psalmists preached it to their own troubled souls, and the apostles tied it to the resurrection of Jesus.

These are the verses about hope that readers return to most often. Read them slowly, one at a time — the way the Lucernia app presents them — and notice how often hope is paired with patience, prayer, and the character of God himself.

24 Bible verses about hope

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   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.

4. 4

   And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   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.

7. 7

   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.

8. 8

   Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

9. 9

   And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

10. 10

    For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

11. 11

    Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

12. 12

    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

13. 13

    My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

14. 14

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

15. 15

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

16. 16

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

17. 17

    Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

18. 18

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

19. 19

    The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

20. 20

    For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

21. 21

    Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

22. 22

    I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

23. 23

    And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

24. 24

    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.

Bible text: King James Version (KJV).