Hope
virtueConfident expectation and trust in God’s promises
Not just a list of verses — a map of how ideas in Scripture connect and lead to each other.
Follow the flow
Hope connects to different paths in Scripture:
Hope arises from Heaven and Healing, and leads to Sanctification.
Reading Path
Follow this theme through Scripture — one verse per step, in theological order.
“In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”John 14:2 →
“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 →
“Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”Revelation 14:12 →
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”2 Corinthians 3:18 →
Relationships
Anchor Scriptures 18 verses
“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.”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.”
Read in context →“Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“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,”
Read in context →“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:”
Read in context →“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Read in context →“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“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:”
Read in context →“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,”
Read in context →“Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:”
Read in context →“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“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?”
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