Concordance
“Hope” in the Bible
165 verses contain “hope” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible — the first 150 are listed below.
- Ruth 1:12 Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
- 1 Kings 20:33 Now the men were looking for a sign of hope, and they quickly grasped at this word and replied, “Yes, your brother Ben-hadad.” “Go and get him!” said the king. Then…
- 1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
- Ezra 10:2 …from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for…
- Esther 9:1 …ere to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated…
- Job 4:6 Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
- Job 5:16 So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
- Job 6:8 If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
- Job 6:11 What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
- Job 6:19 The caravans of Tema look for water; the travelers of Sheba hope to find it.
- Job 6:20 They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.
- Job 7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Job 8:13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
- Job 11:18 You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.
- Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
- Job 13:15 Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
- Job 14:7 For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.
- Job 14:19 as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
- Job 17:15 where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
- Job 19:10 He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
- Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Job 30:26 But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
- Job 41:9 Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
- Psalms 9:18 For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
- Psalms 31:24 Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the LORD.
- Psalms 33:17 A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.
- Psalms 33:18 Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion
- Psalms 33:22 May Your loving devotion rest on us, O LORD, as we put our hope in You.
- Psalms 37:9 For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
- Psalms 39:7 And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
- Psalms 42:5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
- Psalms 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.
- Psalms 43:5 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.
- Psalms 62:5 Rest in God alone, O my soul, for my hope comes from Him.
- Psalms 62:10 Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
- Psalms 65:5 With awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.
- Psalms 69:6 May those who hope in You not be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of Hosts; may those who seek You not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel.
- Psalms 71:5 For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
- Psalms 71:14 But I will always hope and will praise You more and more.
- Psalms 119:43 Never take Your word of truth from my mouth, for I hope in Your judgments.
- Psalms 119:49 Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.
- Psalms 119:74 May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.
- Psalms 119:114 You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.
- Psalms 119:116 Sustain me as You promised, that I may live; let me not be ashamed of my hope.
- Psalms 119:147 I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.
- Psalms 130:5 I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.
- Psalms 130:7 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.
- Psalms 131:3 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, both now and forevermore.
- Psalms 146:5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
- Psalms 147:11 The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.
- Proverbs 10:28 The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectations of the wicked will perish.
- Proverbs 11:7 When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.
- Proverbs 11:23 The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.
- Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
- Proverbs 19:18 Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.
- Proverbs 23:18 For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
- Proverbs 24:14 Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.
- Proverbs 26:12 Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Proverbs 29:20 Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Ecclesiastes 9:4 There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
- Isaiah 20:5 Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.
- Isaiah 20:6 …coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we…
- Isaiah 38:18 For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
- Isaiah 42:4 He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”
- Isaiah 49:23 …your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to…
- Isaiah 51:5 My righteousness draws near, My salvation is on the way, and My arms will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look for Me and wait in hope for My arm.
- Isaiah 57:10 You are wearied by your many journeys, but you did not say, “There is no hope!” You found renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.
- Isaiah 59:9 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
- Isaiah 59:11 We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
- Jeremiah 8:15 We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
- Jeremiah 14:8 O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
- Jeremiah 14:19 … Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only…
- Jeremiah 14:22 … showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these…
- Jeremiah 17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of…
- Jeremiah 23:16 …ophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the…
- 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.
- Jeremiah 31:17 So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.
- Jeremiah 50:7 … sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their…
- Lamentations 3:18 So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
- Lamentations 3:21 Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
- Lamentations 3:24 “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
- Lamentations 3:29 Let him bury his face in the dust— perhaps there is still hope.
- Ezekiel 19:5 When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
- Ezekiel 37:11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
- Hosea 2:15 …er vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of…
- Zechariah 9:5 Ashkelon will see and fear;Gaza will writhe in agony,as will Ekron,for her hope will wither.There will cease to be a king in Gaza,and Ashkelon will be uninhabited.
- Zechariah 9:12 Return to your stronghold,O prisoners of hope;even today I declarethat I will restore to you double.
- Matthew 12:21 In His name the nations will put their hope.”
- John 5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
- Acts 2:26 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell in hope,
- Acts 16:19 When the girl’s owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace.
- Acts 23:6 …I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on…
- Acts 24:15 and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
- Acts 24:16 In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
- Acts 26:6 And now I stand on trial because of my hope in the promise that God made to our fathers,
- Acts 26:7 the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to realize as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.
- Acts 27:20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.
- Acts 28:20 So for this reason I have called to see you and speak with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”
- Romans 4:18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”
- Romans 5:2 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.
- Romans 5:4 perseverance, character; and character, hope.
- Romans 5:5 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.
- Romans 8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
- Romans 8:24 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?
- Romans 8:25 But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.
- Romans 11:14 in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.
- Romans 12:12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
- 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.
- Romans 15:12 And once more, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will put their hope.”
- 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.
- Romans 15:24 I hope to see you on my way to Spain. And after I have enjoyed your company for a while, you can equip me for my journey.
- 1 Corinthians 13:7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- 1 Corinthians 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
- 1 Corinthians 15:19 If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.
- 1 Corinthians 16:7 For I do not want to see you now only in passing; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
- 2 Corinthians 1:7 And our hope for you is sure, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.
- 2 Corinthians 1:10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,
- 2 Corinthians 1:13 For we do not write you anything that is beyond your ability to read and understand. And I hope that you will understand us completely,
- 2 Corinthians 3:12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
- 2 Corinthians 5:11 Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.
- 2 Corinthians 8:20 We hope to avoid any criticism of the way we administer this generous gift.
- 2 Corinthians 10:15 Neither do we boast beyond our limits in the labors of others. But we hope that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you will greatly increase as well,
- 2 Corinthians 11:1 I hope you will bear with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.
- 2 Corinthians 13:6 And I hope you will realize that we have not failed the test.
- Galatians 5:5 But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the hope of righteousness.
- Ephesians 1:12 in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.
- Ephesians 1:18 I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
- Ephesians 2:12 …ael, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the…
- Ephesians 4:4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;
- Philippians 1:20 I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or…
- Philippians 2:19 Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I learn how you are doing.
- Philippians 2:23 So I hope to send him as soon as I see what happens with me.
- Colossians 1:5 the faith and love proceeding from the hope stored up for you in heaven, of which you have already heard in the word of truth, the gospel
- Colossians 1:23 …nue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul,…
- Colossians 1:27 To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:3 and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:19 After all, who is our hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?
- 1 Thessalonians 4:13 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.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16 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,
- 1 Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
- 1 Timothy 3:14 Although I hope to come to you soon, I am writing you these things
- 1 Timothy 4:10 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.
- 1 Timothy 5:5 The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
- 1 Timothy 6:17 …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…
- 2 Timothy 2:25 He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.
- Titus 1:2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
- Titus 2:13 as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.
- Titus 3:7 so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.
- Philemon 1:22 In the meantime, prepare a guest room for me, because I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
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