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20 Bible Verses About Hope

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Summary

  • The Hebrew verb qavah means to wait for or hope, and the ESV translates it “wait” in Isaiah 40:31 and Psalm 130:5.
  • Jeremiah 29:11 was addressed to the exiles in Babylon, and verse 10 sets its fulfilment after seventy years.
  • Lamentations 3 moves from “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the Lord” (verse 18) to “therefore I will hope in him” (verse 24) after the poet calls God’s steadfast love to mind.
  • 1 Peter 1:3 and 1 Corinthians 15:19-20 rest Christian hope on the resurrection of Jesus.
  • Romans 8:24 says “hope that is seen is not hope,” and Hebrews 11:1 defines faith as “the assurance of things hoped for.”

In the Bible, hope means waiting for what God has promised and has not yet given. A psalmist tells his own soul to hope in God (Psalm 42:11), Peter calls it “a living hope” through the resurrection of Jesus (1 Peter 1:3), and Hebrews calls it an “anchor of the soul” resting on God’s oath (Hebrews 6:17-19). The Hebrew verb qavah means to wait for, look for or hope, and the English Standard Version translates it “wait” in Isaiah 40:31…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 6960, קָוָה (qavah): to wait, to look for, to hope, to expect; used in Isaiah 40:31 and Psalm 130:5. biblehub.com/hebrew/6960

Strong’s Hebrew 8615, תִּקְוָה (tiqvah): from qavah; literally a cord, figuratively expectancy or hope; used in Joshua 2:18 and Jeremiah 29:11. biblehub.com/hebrew/8615

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