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.
Jeremiah 29:11·KJV
9 verses · KJV
Hope in the Bible is not wishful thinking — it's confident expectation rooted in God's character and promises. When the prophets spoke of hope, they meant a tomorrow secured by covenant. Paul called it the anchor of the soul. These verses sustain the weary, the waiting, and the grieving.
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.
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 hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
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.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.
It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
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.