Bible verses · Berean Standard Bible
Bible Verses About Hope
Read passages that place hope in God's promise, endurance, and care amid difficulty.
Each selection is one verse. Open the full chapter to read who is speaking and what surrounds it.
Romans 15:13
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.
In context: Paul offers a blessing of joy, peace, and hope as he closes his appeal for welcome.
Read the full chapter →Romans 5:4
perseverance, character; and character, hope.
In context: This verse belongs to Paul's sequence from suffering through endurance and character toward hope.
Read the full chapter →Hebrews 6:19
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
In context: The image of an anchor follows an account of God's trustworthy promise.
Read the full chapter →Psalm 130:5
I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.
In context: The psalmist waits for the Lord after crying out from the depths.
Read the full chapter →Psalm 39:7
And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
In context: After reflecting on how brief life is, the psalmist turns his waiting toward God.
Read the full chapter →Psalm 42:11
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.
In context: The psalmist questions his own discouragement and urges his soul to hope in God.
Read the full chapter →Psalm 71:14
But I will always hope and will praise You more and more.
In context: An older psalmist facing opposition resolves to keep hoping and praising.
Read the full chapter →Jeremiah 29:11
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.
In context: Jeremiah's letter to exiles in Babylon promises a future after seventy years, not an immediate rescue.
Read the full chapter →Lamentations 3:24
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
In context: Amid grief over Jerusalem's ruin, the writer calls the Lord his portion and chooses to hope.
Read the full chapter →Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.
In context: Paul describes hope as waiting patiently for what cannot yet be seen.
Read the full chapter →Romans 15:4
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.
In context: Paul says the Scriptures were written so that endurance and encouragement would lead to hope.
Read the full chapter →Hebrews 10:23
Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
In context: The writer urges readers to hold firmly to their hope because the One who promised is faithful.
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