Sample Scriptures on Hope
(New Living Translation)
Old Testament
1 Samuel 9:20
Samuel said to Saul, "And don’t worry about those donkeys that were lost three days ago, for they have been found. And I am here to tell you that you and your family are the focus of all Israel’s hopes. ”
Psalm 10:17
"Lord, you know the hopes of the helpless. Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them."
New Testament
Romans 8:23
"And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us."
"I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance"
(Ephesians 1:18 NLT).