Bible Verses About Hope
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
What to draw from
Bible verses about hope, written in exile, in prison, in illness and in grief as well as in times of joy. Many of the best known come from the Psalms, Isaiah, Lamentations 3 and the letter to the Romans. Draw one at random or browse the full list below.
A well-known example
Jeremiah 29:11 is among the most widely shared Bible verses about hope. In its chapter, it is part of a letter to people who had been taken into exile in Babylon, and the verse before it speaks of seventy years. Reading the whole chapter shows what the promise refers to and to whom it was first addressed. The same is true of many verses about hope, which is why every verse here can be opened in its context with one click.
All 53 verses
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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
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Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
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And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
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And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
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But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
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Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
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Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds. Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
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Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
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And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God. ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
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Rest in God alone, O my soul, for my hope comes from Him.
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So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath. Thus 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 strongly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
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“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
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And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.
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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
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Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
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Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.
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Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
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Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
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Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
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And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.
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For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
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I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.
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My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
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Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the LORD.
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I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
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I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.
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But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.
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For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
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For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
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And Jesus said to him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
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Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy. Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share, treasuring up for themselves a firm foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
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Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
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You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.
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But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
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For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
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For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
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He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
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May Your loving devotion rest on us, O LORD, as we put our hope in You.
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O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, both now and forevermore.
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The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.
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In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
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For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?
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When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” “Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
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For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that is far beyond comparison. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
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Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.
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To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe.
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Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance. But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”