Meaning of “hope”

1. Hope — one of the three main elements of Christian character (1 Cor. 13:13). It is joined to faith and love, and is opposed to seeing or possessing (Rom. 8:24; 1 John 3:2). "Hope is an essential and fundamental element of Christian life, so essential indeed, that, like faith and love, it can itself designate the essence of Christianity (1 Pet. 3:15; Heb. 10:23). In it the whole glory of the Christian vocation is centred (Eph. 1:18; 4:4)." Unbelievers are without this hope (Eph. 2:12; 1 Thess. 4:13). Christ is the actual object of the believer's hope, because it is in his second coming that the hope of glory will be fulfilled (1 Tim. 1:1; Col. 1:27; Titus 2:13). It is spoken of as "lively", i.e., a living, hope, a hope not frail and perishable, but having a perennial life (1 Pet. 1:3). In Rom. 5:2 the "hope" spoken of is probably objective, i.e., "the hope set before us," namely, eternal life (comp. 12:12). In 1 John 3:3 the expression "hope in him" ought rather to be, as in the Revised Version, "hope on him," i.e., a hope based on God.

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1. Ruth Chapter 1 Verse 12 — Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;

2. Ezra Chapter 10 Verse 2 — 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.

3. Esther Chapter 9 Verse 1 — Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;

4. Job Chapter 4 Verse 6 — Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

5. Job Chapter 5 Verse 16 — So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

6. Job Chapter 6 Verse 11 — What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

7. Job Chapter 6 Verse 20 — They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

8. Job Chapter 7 Verse 6 — My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

9. Job Chapter 8 Verse 13 — So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

10. Job Chapter 8 Verse 14 — Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

11. Job Chapter 11 Verse 18 — And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

12. Job Chapter 11 Verse 20 — 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.

13. Job Chapter 14 Verse 7 — 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.

14. Job Chapter 14 Verse 19 — 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.

15. Job Chapter 17 Verse 15 — And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

16. Job Chapter 19 Verse 10 — He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

17. Job Chapter 27 Verse 8 — For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

18. Job Chapter 31 Verse 24 — If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

19. Job Chapter 41 Verse 9 — Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

20. Psalms Chapter 16 Verse 9 — Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

21. Psalms Chapter 22 Verse 9 — But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

22. Psalms Chapter 31 Verse 24 — Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

23. Psalms Chapter 33 Verse 18 — Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

24. Psalms Chapter 33 Verse 22 — Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

25. Psalms Chapter 38 Verse 15 — For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

26. Psalms Chapter 39 Verse 7 — And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

27. Psalms Chapter 42 Verse 5 — 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.

28. Psalms Chapter 42 Verse 11 — 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.

29. Psalms Chapter 43 Verse 5 — 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.

30. Psalms Chapter 71 Verse 5 — For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.

31. Psalms Chapter 71 Verse 14 — But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.

32. Psalms Chapter 78 Verse 7 — That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

33. Psalms Chapter 119 Verse 43 — And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.

34. Psalms Chapter 119 Verse 49 — Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.

35. Psalms Chapter 119 Verse 74 — They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

36. Psalms Chapter 119 Verse 81 — My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

37. Psalms Chapter 119 Verse 114 — Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

38. Psalms Chapter 119 Verse 116 — Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.

39. Psalms Chapter 119 Verse 147 — I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

40. Psalms Chapter 119 Verse 166 — LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

41. Psalms Chapter 130 Verse 5 — I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

42. Psalms Chapter 130 Verse 7 — Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

43. Psalms Chapter 131 Verse 3 — Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.

44. Psalms Chapter 146 Verse 5 — Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

45. Psalms Chapter 147 Verse 11 — The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

46. Proverbs Chapter 10 Verse 28 — The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

47. Proverbs Chapter 11 Verse 7 — When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.

48. Proverbs Chapter 13 Verse 12 — Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

49. Proverbs Chapter 14 Verse 32 — The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

50. Proverbs Chapter 19 Verse 18 — Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

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