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Hope Deferred

 

Proverbs 13:12 ESV / 26 helpful votes

 

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes

 

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Romans 8:24-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Hebrews 6:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,

Titus 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

Romans 15:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Jeremiah 17:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

1 Timothy 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,

Ephesians 2:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Ephesians 1:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

Galatians 5:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 14:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.

Psalm 147:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Psalm 39:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.

1 Peter 1:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

Hebrews 6:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,

Hebrews 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

But Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

Titus 3:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

So that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Titus 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

2 Thessalonians 2:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

1 Thessalonians 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

Colossians 1:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Colossians 1:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

If indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

2 Corinthians 3:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 12:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Romans 4:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

Acts 10:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

John 15:7-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

John 14:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Jeremiah 30:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’

Isaiah 58:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

Proverbs 24:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Psalm 33:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,

Psalm 31:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!

Deuteronomy 7:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

1 John 5:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

1 John 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

1 Peter 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

James 5:15-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Hebrews 12:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

1 Thessalonians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?

1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

2 Corinthians 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

1 Corinthians 15:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.

1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 12:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 12:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

If service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 8:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Romans 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Romans 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)

John 15:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

John 13:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 11:25-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

John 9:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”

John 9:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”

John 8:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

Luke 21:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.

Luke 11:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Luke 8:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”

Luke 4:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself.’ What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.”

Mark 9:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”

Mark 5:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

Mark 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Matthew 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

Matthew 10:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 8:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”

Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Hosea 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Lamentations 3:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:12-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

“For thus says the Lord: Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous. There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you. All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.