Scripture by topic
Hope
When the future feels closed.
Reflection
Hope in Scripture is not optimism about circumstances; it is confidence in a Person. It survives waiting rooms and long seasons because it is anchored outside them.
“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.”
Jeremiah 29:11 · KJV“Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope.”
Romans 15:13 · KJV“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him.”
Psalm 42:11 · KJV“It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed... they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”
Lamentations 3:22–23 · KJV“Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast.”
Hebrews 6:19 · KJV“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts.”
Romans 5:5 · KJV“I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.”
Psalm 130:5 · KJV“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God.”
Romans 8:28 · KJV“Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.”
Micah 7:7 · KJV“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ... hath begotten us again unto a lively hope.”
1 Peter 1:3 · KJV