He has brought us by faith into this experience of God's grace, in which we now live. And so we boast of the hope we have of sharing God's glory!

Let your hope keep you joyful, be patient in your troubles, and pray at all times.

Everything written in the Scriptures was written to teach us, in order that we might have hope through the patience and encouragement which the Scriptures give us.

May God, the source of hope, fill you with all joy and peace by means of your faith in him, so that your hope will continue to grow by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The LORD watches over those who obey him, those who trust in his constant love.

May your constant love be with us, LORD, as we put our hope in you.

Happy are those who have the God of Jacob to help them and who depend on the LORD their God,

Wicked people bring about their own downfall by their evil deeds, but good people are protected by their integrity.

"But I will bless the person who puts his trust in me.

Return, you exiles who now have hope; return to your place of safety. Now I tell you that I will repay you twice over with blessing for all you have suffered.

Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.

As for us, our hope is that God will put us right with him; and this is what we wait for by the power of God's Spirit working through our faith.

When the true message, the Good News, first came to you, you heard about the hope it offers. So your faith and love are based on what you hope for, which is kept safe for you in heaven.

You must, of course, continue faithful on a firm and sure foundation, and must not allow yourselves to be shaken from the hope you gained when you heard the gospel. It is of this gospel that I, Paul, became a servant---this gospel which has been preached to everybody in the world.

God's plan is to make known his secret to his people, this rich and glorious secret which he has for all peoples. And the secret is that Christ is in you, which means that you will share in the glory of God.

But we belong to the day, and we should be sober. We must wear faith and love as a breastplate, and our hope of salvation as a helmet.

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and in his grace gave us unfailing courage and a firm hope,

For God has revealed his grace for the salvation of all people.

as we wait for the blessed Day we hope for, when the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ will appear.

There are these two things, then, that cannot change and about which God cannot lie. So we who have found safety with him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us.

We have this hope as an anchor for our lives. It is safe and sure, and goes through the curtain of the heavenly temple into the inner sanctuary.

Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Because of his great mercy he gave us new life by raising Jesus Christ from death. This fills us with a living hope,

Through him you believe in God, who raised him from death and gave him glory; and so your faith and hope are fixed on God.

Everyone who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure, just as Christ is pure.

For we fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but on things that are unseen. What can be seen lasts only for a time, but what cannot be seen lasts forever.

For our life is a matter of faith, not of sight.

To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see.

It was concerning this salvation that the prophets made careful search and investigation, and they prophesied about this gift which God would give you.

They tried to find out when the time would be and how it would come. This was the time to which Christ's Spirit in them was pointing, in predicting the sufferings that Christ would have to endure and the glory that would follow.