The Hope

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

• Character

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

• Punishment
• Uncharitableness

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

the waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

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

• Assurance

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.

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

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.

I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

the LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

the hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

• Unjust
• Character

When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.

• Life

hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

the wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.

O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

the LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

• Compassionate
• Heart
• Prisoners

He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, the LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.

Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

• Door

And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

the LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

• Covetousness

And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,

• Paul
• Prudence

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

• Decision

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

• Saints
• Power

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.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

• FIGURATIVE
• Breastplate
• Day

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

• PAUL
• Call

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;

• Inviolable
• Truth

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

• Church

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

• Refuge
• Types

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

• Holy
• Heart

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: