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Bible Verses About Hope

Biblical hope is not wishing. It is waiting with confidence for what God has promised, because of who made the promise. These passages name that promise and the one who keeps it.

When to say them. Say them when the future looks closed, when you are waiting, and when you need to remember how the story ends.

8 passages to memorize

  1. 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.
    An example of praying it: God of hope, fill me with all joy and peace as I believe in you. I have been running low on hope. By the power of your Holy Spirit, fill me until hope overflows, enough for me and for the people around me.
  2. Lamentations 3:21–23 Yet I call this to mind,and therefore I have hope:Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed,for His mercies never fail.They are new every morning;great is Your faithfulness!
  3. 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.
  4. Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
  5. 1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  6. Romans 8:24–25 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? But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.
  7. Jeremiah 29:11–14 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. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”
  8. Revelation 21:4–5 ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’and there will be no more deathor mourning or crying or pain,for the former things have passed away.”And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”

You can pray any of these passages, memorized or not. How to pray scripture.

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