For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
for we walk by faith, not by sight.
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.
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.
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.
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,
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,
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.
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.
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.
For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
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.
because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.
Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.
The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.
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