Bible Verses About Hope

Biblical hope is not optimism about circumstances. It rests on God's character and mercies that arrive new every morning, even when nothing has changed yet.

Verse text shown in the King James Version.

1. Jeremiah 29:11

   Plans for hope and a future

   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.

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2. Romans 8:28

   God works all things for good

   And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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3. Lamentations 3:22-23

   New mercies every morning

   It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

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4. Romans 15:13

   God of hope fill you with joy

   Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

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5. Psalm 42:11

   Put your hope in God

   Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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