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Ruth 1:12 NIV
Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me--even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons-- -
1 Chronicles 29:15 NIV
We are aliens and strangers in your sight, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope. -
Ezra 10:2 NIV
Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, said to Ezra, "We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the peoples around us. But in spite of this, there is still hope for Israel. -
Job 4:6 NIV
Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope? -
Job 5:16 NIV
So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth. -
Job 6:8 NIV
"Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for, -
Job 6:11 NIV
"What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient? -
Job 6:19 NIV
The caravans of Tema look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope. -
Job 7:6 NIV
"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope. -
Job 8:13 NIV
Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.
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Job 11:18 NIV
You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety. -
Job 11:20 NIV
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp." -
Job 13:15 NIV
Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face. -
Job 14:7 NIV
"At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. -
Job 14:19 NIV
as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man's hope. -
Job 17:13 NIV
If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in darkness, -
Job 17:15 NIV
where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me? -
Job 19:10 NIV
He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree. -
Job 27:8 NIV
For what hope has the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? -
Job 41:9 NIV
Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering.
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Psalms 9:18 NIV
But the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish. -
Psalms 25:3 NIV
No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse. -
Psalms 25:5 NIV
guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. -
Psalms 25:21 NIV
May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you. -
Psalms 31:24 NIV
Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord. -
Psalms 33:17 NIV
A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save. -
Psalms 33:18 NIV
But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, -
Psalms 33:20 NIV
We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. -
Psalms 33:22 NIV
May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you. -
Psalms 37:9 NIV
For evil men will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
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Psalms 39:7 NIV
"But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you. -
Psalms 42:5 NIV
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and -
Psalms 42:11 NIV
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. -
Psalms 43:5 NIV
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. -
Psalms 52:9 NIV
I will praise you forever for what you have done; in your name I will hope, for your name is good. I will praise you in the presence of your saints. -
Psalms 62:5 NIV
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. -
Psalms 65:5 NIV
You answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness, O God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas, -
Psalms 69:6 NIV
May those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me, O Lord, the LORD Almighty; may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me, O God of Israel. -
Psalms 71:5 NIV
For you have been my hope, O Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth. -
Psalms 71:14 NIV
But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more.
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Psalms 119:43 NIV
Do not snatch the word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in your laws. -
Psalms 119:49 NIV
[Zayin] Remember your word to your servant, for you have given me hope. -
Psalms 119:74 NIV
May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word. -
Psalms 119:81 NIV
[Kaph] My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word. -
Psalms 119:114 NIV
You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word. -
Psalms 119:147 NIV
I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word. -
Psalms 130:5 NIV
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope. -
Psalms 130:7 NIV
O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with him is full redemption. -
Psalms 131:3 NIV
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore. -
Psalms 146:5 NIV
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
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Psalms 147:11 NIV
the LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love. -
Proverbs 11:7 NIV
When a wicked man dies, his hope perishes; all he expected from his power comes to nothing. -
Proverbs 11:23 NIV
The desire of the righteous ends only in good, but the hope of the wicked only in wrath. -
Proverbs 13:12 NIV
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. -
Proverbs 19:18 NIV
Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to his death. -
Proverbs 23:18 NIV
There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. -
Proverbs 24:14 NIV
Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. -
Proverbs 24:20 NIV
for the evil man has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out. -
Proverbs 26:12 NIV
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. -
Proverbs 29:20 NIV
Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
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Ecclesiastes 9:4 NIV
Anyone who is among the living has hope--even a live dog is better off than a dead lion! -
Isaiah 19:9 NIV
Those who work with combed flax will despair, the weavers of fine linen will lose hope. -
Isaiah 38:18 NIV
For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. -
Isaiah 40:31 NIV
but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. -
Isaiah 42:4 NIV
he will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on earth. In his law the islands will put their hope." -
Isaiah 49:23 NIV
Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in me will not be disappointed." -
Isaiah 51:5 NIV
My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm. -
Isaiah 66:1 NIV
[Judgment and Hope] This is what the LORD says: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? -
Jeremiah 13:16 NIV
Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings the darkness, before your feet stumble on the darkening hills. You hope for light, but he will turn it to thick darkness and change it to deep gloom. -
Jeremiah 14:8 NIV
O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are you like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays only a night?
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Jeremiah 14:22 NIV
Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, O LORD our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this. -
Jeremiah 17:13 NIV
O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the Lord, the spring of living water. -
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. -
Jeremiah 31:17 NIV
So there is hope for your future," declares the Lord. "Your children will return to their own land. -
Jeremiah 50:7 NIV
Whoever found them devoured them; their enemies said, 'We are not guilty, for they sinned against the Lord, their true pasture, the Lord, the hope of their fathers.' -
Lamentations 3:21 NIV
Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: -
Lamentations 3:25 NIV
The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; -
Lamentations 3:29 NIV
Let him bury his face in the dust-- there may yet be hope. -
Ezekiel 19:5 NIV
" 'When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion. -
Ezekiel 37:11 NIV
Then he said to me: "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, 'Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.'
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Hosea 2:15 NIV
There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt. -
Micah 7:7 NIV
But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. -
Zechariah 9:5 NIV
Ashkelon will see it and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, and Ekron too, for her hope will wither. Gaza will lose her king and Ashkelon will be deserted. -
Zechariah 9:12 NIV
Return to your fortress, O prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you. -
Matthew 12:21 NIV
In his name the nations will put their hope." -
Acts 2:26 NIV
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will live in hope, -
Acts 16:19 NIV
When the owners of the slave girl realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities. -
Acts 23:6 NIV
Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, "My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. I stand on trial because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead." -
Acts 24:15 NIV
and I have the same hope in God as these men, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked. -
Acts 26:6 NIV
And now it is because of my hope in what God has promised our fathers that I am on trial today.
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Acts 26:7 NIV
This is the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. O king, it is because of this hope that the Jews are accusing me. -
Acts 27:20 NIV
When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued raging, we finally gave up all hope of being saved. -
Acts 28:20 NIV
For this reason I have asked to see you and talk with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain." -
Romans 4:18 NIV
Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be." -
Romans 5:2 NIV
through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. -
Romans 5:4 NIV
perseverance, character; and character, hope. -
Romans 5:5 NIV
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. -
Romans 8:20 NIV
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope -
Romans 8:24 NIV
For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? -
Romans 8:25 NIV
But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
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Romans 11:14 NIV
in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. -
Romans 12:12 NIV
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. -
Romans 15:4 NIV
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. -
Romans 15:12 NIV
And again, Isaiah says, "The Root of Jesse will spring up, one who will arise to rule over the nations; the Gentiles will hope in him." -
Romans 15:13 NIV
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. -
Romans 15:24 NIV
I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to visit you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while. -
1 Corinthians 9:10 NIV
Surely he says this for us, doesn't he? Yes, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. -
1 Corinthians 9:15 NIV
But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this in the hope that you will do such things for me. I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of this boast. -
1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. -
1 Corinthians 15:19 NIV
If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.
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1 Corinthians 16:7 NIV
I do not want to see you now and make only a passing visit; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits. -
2 Corinthians 1:7 NIV
And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. -
2 Corinthians 1:10 NIV
He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, -
2 Corinthians 1:13 NIV
For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that, -
2 Corinthians 3:12 NIV
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. -
2 Corinthians 5:11 NIV
[The Ministry of Reconciliation] Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. -
2 Corinthians 10:15 NIV
Neither do we go beyond our limits by boasting of work done by others. Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow, our area of activity among you will greatly expand, -
2 Corinthians 11:1 NIV
[Paul and the False Apostles] I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness; but you are already doing that. -
Galatians 5:5 NIV
But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope. -
Ephesians 1:12 NIV
in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.
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Ephesians 1:18 NIV
I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, -
Ephesians 2:12 NIV
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. -
Ephesians 4:4 NIV
There is one body and one Spirit--just as you were called to one hope when you were called-- -
Philippians 1:20 NIV
I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. -
Philippians 2:19 NIV
[Timothy and Epaphroditus] I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I receive news about you. -
Philippians 2:23 NIV
I hope, therefore, to send him as soon as I see how things go with me. -
Colossians 1:5 NIV
the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel -
Colossians 1:23 NIV
if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. -
Colossians 1:27 NIV
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 NIV
We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Thessalonians 2:19 NIV
For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you? -
1 Thessalonians 4:13 NIV
[The Coming of the Lord] Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. -
1 Thessalonians 5:8 NIV
But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. -
2 Thessalonians 2:16 NIV
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, -
1 Timothy 1:1 NIV
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope, -
1 Timothy 3:14 NIV
Although I hope to come to you soon, I am writing you these instructions so that, -
1 Timothy 4:10 NIV
(and for this we labor and strive), that we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe. -
1 Timothy 5:5 NIV
The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help. -
1 Timothy 6:17 NIV
Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. -
2 Timothy 2:25 NIV
Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth,
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Titus 1:2 NIV
a faith and knowledge resting on the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, -
Titus 2:13 NIV
while we wait for the blessed hope--the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, -
Titus 3:7 NIV
so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. -
Philemon 1:22 NIV
And one thing more: Prepare a guest room for me, because I hope to be restored to you in answer to your prayers. -
Hebrews 3:6 NIV
But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast. -
Hebrews 6:11 NIV
We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure. -
Hebrews 6:18 NIV
God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged. -
Hebrews 6:19 NIV
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, -
Hebrews 7:19 NIV
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God. -
Hebrews 10:23 NIV
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
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Hebrews 11:1 NIV
[By Faith] Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. -
1 Peter 1:3 NIV
[Praise to God for a Living Hope] Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, -
1 Peter 1:13 NIV
[Be Holy] Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. -
1 Peter 1:21 NIV
Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God. -
1 Peter 3:5 NIV
For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, -
1 Peter 3:15 NIV
But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, -
1 John 3:3 NIV
Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure. -
2 John 1:12 NIV
I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete. -
3 John 1:14 NIV
I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face. Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name.