Bible Verses For Hope In Hard Times

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Hope in God will help you through hard times. I’ve collected more than 40 Bible Verses about hope. As a follower of Jesus, hope is more than just a positive belief. It is a Spirit filled belief in God’s loving care for all of creation and specifically for your needs and the needs of those you love.

Be inspired to keep your hope in God, as you read through and soak in God’s Word; over 40 Bible verses about hope.

Enjoy.

Unless otherwise indicated, all verses are taken from the NASB translation.

Psalms 119:166

Psalms 9:18

“For the needy will not always be forgotten,
Nor the HOPE of the afflicted perish forever.”

Psalms 31:24

“Be strong and let your heart take courage,
All you who HOPE in the Lord.”

Psalms 33:18

“Behold, the eye of the Lord
is on those who fear Him,
On those who HOPE for His lovingkindness,”

Psalm 33:22

“Let Your lovingkindness, O Lord, be upon us,
According as we have HOPED in You.”

Psalms 38:15

“For I HOPE in You, O Lord;
You will answer, O Lord my God.”

Psalms 39:7

“And now, Lord, for what do I wait?
My HOPE is in You.”

Psalms 42:5

“Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
HOPE in God, for I shall again praise Him
For the help of His presence.”

Psalms 42:11

“Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
HOPE in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.”

Psalms 43:5

“Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why are you disturbed within me?
HOPE in God, for I shall again praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.”

Psalms 62:5

“My soul, wait in silence for God only,
For my HOPE is from Him.”

Psalms 71:5

"For You are my HOPE; O Lord God,
You are my confidence from my youth.”

​Psalms 71:14

“But as for me, I will HOPE continually,
And will praise You yet more and more.”

Psalms 119:49

“Remember the word to Your servant,
In which You have made me HOPE.”

Psalms 119:116

“Sustain me according to Your word,
that I may live;
And do not let me be ashamed of my HOPE.”

Psalms 130:7

“O Israel, HOPE in the Lord;
For with the Lord there is lovingkindness,
And with Him is abundant redemption.”

Psalms 131:3

“O Israel, HOPE in the Lord
From this time forth and forever.”

Proverbs 10:28

“The HOPE of the righteous is gladness,
But the expectation of the wicked perishes.”

Proverbs 23:18

“Surely there is a future,
And your HOPE will not be cut off.”

Proverbs 24:14

“Know that wisdom is thus for your soul;
If you find it, then there will be a future,
And your HOPE will not be cut off.”

​Isaiah 49:23b

…”And you will know that I am the Lord;
Those who HOPEFULLY wait for Me
will not be put to shame.”

​Jeremiah 29:11

“For I know the plans that I have for you,’
declares the Lord,
‘plans for welfare and not for calamity
to give you a future and a HOPE.”

​Lamentations 3:21

“This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have HOPE.”

​Lamentations 3:22-24

“The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.”
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I have HOPE in Him.”

Matthew 12:21

“And in His name the Gentiles will HOPE.”

​Acts 2:26-27

“‘Therefore my heart was glad
and my tongue exulted;
Moreover my flesh also will live in HOPE;
Because You will not abandon my soul to Hades,
Nor allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.”

​Romans 4:18

“In HOPE against HOPE he [Abraham] believed,
so that he might become a father of many nations
according to that which had been spoken,
“So shall your descendants be.””

​Romans 5:1-2

“Therefore, having been justified by faith,
we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom also we have obtained
our introduction by faith
into this grace in which we stand;
and we exult in HOPE of the glory of God.”

​Romans 5:3-5

“And not only this,
but we also exult in our tribulations,
knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;
and perseverance, proven character;
and proven character, HOPE;
and HOPE does not disappoint,
because the love of God has been poured out
within our hearts through the Holy Spirit
who was given to us.”

​Romans 8:24-25

“For in hope we have been saved,
but HOPE that is seen is not HOPE;
for who HOPES for what he already sees?
But if we HOPE for what we do not see,
with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.”

​Romans 12:10-13

“Be devoted to one another in brotherly love;
give preference to one another in honor;
not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit,
serving the Lord; rejoicing in HOPE,
persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer,
contributing to the needs of the saints,
practicing hospitality.”

​Romans 15:4

“For whatever was written in earlier times
was written for our instruction,
so that through perseverance and
the encouragement of the Scriptures
we might have HOPE.”

​Romans 15:12

“Again Isaiah says,
“There shall come the root of Jesse,
And HE who arises to rule over the Gentiles,
IN Him shall the Gentiles HOPE.””

​Romans 15:13

“Now may the God of HOPE fill you
with all joy and peace in believing,
so that you will abound in HOPE
by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

​1 Corinthians 9:10

“Or is He speaking altogether for our sake?
Yes, for our sake it was written,
because the plowman ought to plow in HOPE,
and the thresher to thresh in HOPE
of sharing the crops.”

​1 Corinthians 13:7

“[Love] bears all things, believes all things,
HOPES all things, endures all things.”

​1 Corinthians 13:13

“But now faith, HOPE, love, abide these three;
but the greatest of these is love.”

​1 Corinthians 15:19

“If we have HOPED in Christ in this life only,
we are of all men most to be pitied.”

​Galatians 5:5

“For we through the Spirit, by faith,
are waiting for the HOPE of righteousness.”

​Ephesians 1:18

“I pray that the eyes of your heart
may be enlightened,
so that you will know what is
the HOPE of His calling,
what are the riches of the glory
of His inheritance in the saints,”

​Ephesians 2:12

“remember that you were at that time
separate from Christ, excluded from
the commonwealth of Israel,
and strangers to the covenants of promise,
having no HOPE and without God in the world.”

​Ephesians 4:4

“There is one body and one Spirit,
just as also you were called
in one HOPE of your calling;”

​Colossians 1:5

“because of the HOPE laid up
for you in heaven,
of which you previously heard
in the word of truth, the gospel”

​Colossians 1:23

“if indeed you continue in the faith
firmly established and steadfast,
and not moved away from
the HOPE of the gospel that you have heard,
which was proclaimed in all creation
under heaven, and of which I, Paul,
was made a minister."

​Colossians 1:27

to whom God willed to make known
what is the riches of the glory of this mystery
among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you,
the HOPE of glory.”

​1 Thessalonians 4:13

“But we do not want you to be uninformed,
brethren, about those who are asleep,
so that you will not grieve as do the rest
who have no HOPE.”

​1 Thessalonians 5:8

But since we are of the day, let us be sober,
having put on the breastplate of faith and love,
and as a helmet, the HOPE of salvation.

​2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

“Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself
and God our Father, who has loved us and
given us eternal comfort and good HOPE by grace,
comfort and strengthen your hearts
in every good work and word.”

We welcome you to come back as often as you wish and read over these Scriptures about hope, filling your thoughts with a Godly hope.