What is life if we don’t have something we are looking forward to in the future? When we were 8 years old, we couldn’t wait to be 10. At 10, we wanted to be a teenager. At 13, we looked forward to turning 16. At 16, we wanted to be 18. Then, at 18, we believed things would be better when we turned 21.
We get up most mornings expecting a good and productive day. We believe that our efforts will give us the excellent results we desire.
We even endure hard times and trying seasons because we think something better is coming from the situation, and great things are just around the corner.
Unfortunately, we have all been at a place in life where we weren't so confident about the future. The knowing we had in our hearts about our efforts paying off, achieving our objectives, and our discouraging situations changing all but faded away.
If you’ve lived long enough, you’ve experienced failure, heartbreak, and trouble of all kinds. You’ve had circumstances that caused you dread and sleepless nights.
However, a part of you kept moving forward because no matter how bad things looked, how bad you felt, or how hopeless things may have appeared, there was something inside you telling you that things would turn around.
Sometimes, our troubles and trials speak louder than the hopeful voice inside us, and that is when we can benefit from reading and meditating on good bible verses about having hope for the future.
In this article, we will define hope and then explore several bible verses about having hope for the future. They will stir your faith, rebuild your hope, and help you see beyond your current issues to a more promising day in the future.
What is Hope?
Hope is when we desire and expect a particular thing to happen. Additionally, hope is belief in the fulfillment of a thing you long to see. When we have hope, we are living life with an optimistic outlook and mindset based on the circumstances and events we anticipate will come to pass.
Furthermore, to have hope is to “expect with confidence.” As believers in God and verses of scripture as His inspired word and letters to us, we don't just have hope and live in a state of wishful thinking. We place our hopes in God, the one who can guide us to where our hopes and dreams become reality.
37 Good Bible Verses about Having Hope for the Future
1. Isaiah 40:31
“But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] will gain new strength and renew their power; They will lift up their wings [and rise up close to God] like eagles [rising toward the sun]; They will run and not become weary, They will walk and not grow tired.”
2. Psalms 42:11
“Why are you in despair, O my soul? Why have you become restless and disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God.”
3. Romans 15:13
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit, you will abound in hope and overflow with confidence in His promises.”
4. Hebrews 11:1
“Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed) and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses].”
5. Psalms 119:114
“You are my hiding place and my shield; I wait for Your word.”
6. Hebrews 10:23
“Let us seize and hold tightly the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is reliable and trustworthy and faithful [to His word];”
7. Psalms 31:24
“Be strong and let your hearts take courage, all you who wait for and confidently expect the Lord.”
8. Romans 8:25
“But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait eagerly for it with patience and composure.”
9. Jeremiah 29:11
“For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”
10. Romans 5:3-5
“And not only this but [with joy] let us exult in our sufferings and rejoice in our hardships, knowing that hardship (distress, pressure, trouble) produces patient endurance; and endurance, proven character (spiritual maturity); and proven character, hope and confident assurance [of eternal salvation]. Such hope [in God’s promises] never disappoints us because God’s love has been abundantly poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”
And not only this but [with joy] let us exult in our sufferings and rejoice in our hardships, knowing that hardship (distress, pressure, trouble) produces patient endurance; and endurance, proven character (spiritual maturity); and proven character, hope and confident assurance [of eternal salvation]. Such hope [in God’s promises] never disappoints us because God’s love has been abundantly poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” – Romans 5:3-5
11. 1 Peter 1:3
“Blessed [gratefully praised and adored] be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant and boundless mercy has caused us to be born again [that is, to be reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose] to an ever-living hope and confident assurance through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”
12. Proverbs 3:5-6
“Trust in and rely confidently on the Lord with all your heart, And do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In all your ways know and acknowledge and recognize Him, And He will make your paths straight and smooth [removing obstacles that block your way].”
13. Micah 7:7
“But as for me, I will look expectantly for the Lord, and with confidence in Him I will keep watch; I will wait [with confident expectation] for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.”
14. Proverbs 13:12
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.”
15. Psalms 130:5
“I wait [patiently] for the Lord, my soul [expectantly] waits, and in His word do I hope.”
16. Psalms 25:5
“Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; for You [and only You] I wait [expectantly] all the day long.”
17. Psalms 33:22
“Let Your [steadfast] lovingkindness, O Lord, be upon us, in proportion as we have hoped in You.”
18. Ephesians 1:18
“And [I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit] so that you will know and cherish the hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints (God’s people),”
19. Proverbs 10:28
“The hope of the righteous [those of honorable character and integrity] is joy, but the expectation of the wicked [those who oppose God and ignore His wisdom] comes to nothing.”
20. 1 Corinthians 13:6-7
“It does not rejoice at injustice but rejoices with the truth [when right and truth prevail]. Love bears all things [regardless of what comes], believes all things [looking for the best in each one], hopes all things [remaining steadfast during difficult times], endures all things [without weakening].”
It does not rejoice at injustice but rejoices with the truth [when right and truth prevail]. Love bears all things [regardless of what comes], believes all things [looking for the best in each one], hopes all things [remaining steadfast during difficult times], endures all things [without weakening].” – 1 Corinthians 13:6-7
21. Psalms 39:7
“And now, Lord, for what do I expectantly wait? My hope [my confident expectation] is in You.”
22. Psalms 130:7
“O Israel, hope in the Lord; for with the Lord there is lovingkindness, and with Him is abundant redemption.”
23. Jeremiah 17:7
“Blessed [with spiritual security] is the man who believes and trusts in and relies on the Lord and whose hope and confident expectation is the Lord.”
24. Colossians 1:27
“God [in His eternal plan] chose to make known to them how great for the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in and among you, the hope and guarantee of [realizing the] glory.”
25. Psalms 71:5
“For You are my hope; O Lord God, You are my trust and the source of my confidence from my youth.”
26. Romans 12:12
“Constantly rejoicing in hope [because of our confidence in Christ], steadfast and patient in distress, devoted to prayer [continually seeking wisdom, guidance, and strength],”
27. Revelation 21:4
“And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will no longer be death; there will no longer be sorrow and anguish, or crying, or pain; for the former order of things has passed away.”
28. 1 Corinthians 15:19
“If we who are [abiding] in Christ have hoped only in this life [and this is all there is], then we are of all people most miserable and to be pitied.”
29. Titus 1:2
“Based on the hope and divine guarantee of eternal life, [the life] which God, who is ever truthful and without deceit, promised before the ages of time began.”
30. Lamentations 3:21-24
“But this I call to mind; therefore, I have hope. It is because of the Lord’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed because His [tender] compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great and beyond measure is Your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion and my inheritance,” says my soul; “Therefore, I have hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him.”
31. Psalms 42:5
“Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become restless and disturbed within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him for the help of His presence.”
32. Hebrews 6:18-19
“So that by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge would have strong encouragement and indwelling strength to hold tightly to the hope set before us. This hope [this confident assurance] we have as an anchor of the soul [it cannot slip, and it cannot break down under whatever pressure bears upon it]—a safe and steadfast hope that enters within the veil [of the heavenly temple, that most Holy Place in which the very presence of God dwells].”
So that by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge would have strong encouragement and indwelling strength to hold tightly to the hope set before us. This hope [this confident assurance] we have as an anchor of the soul [it cannot slip, and it cannot break down under whatever pressure bears upon it]—a safe and steadfast hope that enters within the veil [of the heavenly temple, that most Holy Place in which the very presence of God dwells].” – Hebrews 6:18-19
33. Psalm 46:1-2
“God is our refuge and strength [mighty and impenetrable], a very present and well-proved help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change and though the mountains be shaken and slip into the heart of the seas.”
34. 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3
“We give thanks to God always for all of you, continually mentioning you in our prayers; recalling unceasingly before our God and Father your work energized by faith, and your service motivated by love and unwavering hope in [the return of] our Lord Jesus Christ.”
35. Romans 15:4
“For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope and overflow with confidence in His promises.”
36. Hebrews 3:5-6
“Now Moses was faithful in [the administration of] all God’s house, [but only] as a ministering servant, [his ministry serving] as a testimony of the things which were to be spoken afterward [the revelation to come in Christ]; but Christ is faithful as a Son over His [Father’s] house. And we are His house if we hold fast our confidence and sense of triumph in our hope [in Christ].”
37. Hebrews 6:11
“And we desire for each one of you to show the same diligence [all the way through] so as to realize and enjoy the full assurance of hope until the end.”
Final Thoughts on 37 Good Bible Verses about Having Hope for the Future
In the face of uncertainty, turmoil, and despair, may you find solace, peace, and rest. As you meditate with a hopeful heart on these good bible verses about the future, may the clouds of uncertainty and storms of confusion begin to dissolve as you let go of all limiting beliefs.
My desire is that you find yourself hoping for things you never had the courage to believe in in the past.
As you dare to believe, may you find the Lord’s hand of guidance and strength. May you be filled with the courage to reach new heights, hope for the impossible, and remain diligent in your faith until you see your heart’s desires come to fruition.
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