These Bible Verses For Faith and Hope are for anyone who is waiting, grieving or feeling worn down. They are words to pray when the answer has not come yet and to repeat when discouragement grows loud. Many were written by people in exile, sickness or loss, which is why they speak so honestly to hearts that need fresh hope today.
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Romans 15:13 (KJV)
A prayer that the God of hope would fill you with joy and peace in believing, and make you abound in hope.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV)
God tells His exiled people that His thoughts toward them are of peace, to give them an expected end.
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31 (KJV)
Those who wait on the Lord renew their strength, a promise to hold on to when weariness sets in.
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
Psalms 31:24 (KJV)
Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Psalms 130:5 (KJV)
The psalmist waits for the Lord and places his hope in God’s word, a good prayer for long seasons.
But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
Psalms 71:14 (KJV)
I will hope continually and praise thee more and more, a resolve to speak aloud on discouraging days.
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Lamentations 3:24-26 (KJV)
The Lord is my portion, and it is good to hope and quietly wait for His salvation.
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Psalms 39:7 (KJV)
David asks what he is waiting for and answers that his hope is in God alone.
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
Proverbs 23:18 (KJV)
Solomon assures us there is an end, and our expectation shall not be cut off.
Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Micah 7:7 (KJV)
Micah chooses to look to the Lord and wait for the God of his salvation, confident that He will hear.
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Romans 12:12 (KJV)
Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation and continuing instant in prayer gives a simple plan for hard days.
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
Psalms 62:5-6 (KJV)
Tell your soul to wait only upon God, because your expectation comes from Him and He is your rock.
Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
Psalms 33:20-22 (KJV)
Our soul waits for the Lord, our help and shield, and we ask His mercy to rest on us as we hope.
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Isaiah 40:29 (KJV)
God gives power to the faint and increases strength for those who have no might left.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (KJV)
Though the outward man perish, the inward man is renewed day by day as we look at things not seen.
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
Psalms 146:5 (KJV)
Happy is the one whose help is the God of Jacob and whose hope is in the Lord.
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.
Psalms 42:11 (KJV)
When your soul feels cast down, this verse helps you speak hope back to yourself.
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Hebrews 10:23 (KJV)
Hold fast your faith without wavering, because God who promised is faithful.
Hope often has to be chosen again each morning. Lamentations 3:21-26 shows Jeremiah doing exactly that. Surrounded by ruin, he calls to mind God’s mercies and says it is good to hope and quietly wait. You can follow the same pattern by starting the day with one of these verses and reading it slowly before looking at your phone or the news.
The Psalms give words for talking to your own heart. When you feel low, read Psalms 42:11 aloud and replace the question with your own situation. Psalms 62:5-6 and Psalms 130:5 are especially helpful in long waiting seasons, reminding you that God is a rock and His word can be trusted. Romans 12:12 offers a simple rhythm too: rejoice in hope, be patient in trouble, keep praying.
Hope also grows in company. Share a verse with a friend who is struggling, or ask someone to pray Romans 15:13 over you. If sadness lingers for weeks or begins to affect sleep, work or daily life, please reach out to a doctor or counsellor as well as your church. Seeking help is not a lack of faith, and God often brings hope through caring people.
Hebrews 11:1 works well prayed by naming your specific hope, asking for the faith to believe it while it remains unseen.
Readers of this page often go on to Bible Verses About Children's Protection or Bible Verses About Romantic Love.
Scripture quotations follow the King James Version; Blue Letter Bible lets you read each one alongside its chapter.
For a related angle, see Bible Verses For Loneliness or Bible Verses For Gratitude.
This subject overlaps with Bible Verses About Prayer and with Bible Verses For Provision.
Bible Verses For Staying Strong and Bible Verses For Powerful Prayer pick up threads that run through these verses.
You might also turn to Bible Verses For Faith and Courage and Bible Verses About Faith and Courage.
If the KJV wording feels unfamiliar, Bible Gateway lets you set it beside a modern translation.
Bible Hub offers commentary and cross-references for each verse.
Return to this verse as you continue holding onto hope in faith.
These verses were never meant to sit on a page as decoration \u2014 they’re meant to shape how you actually respond the next time you’re not sure how to keep hoping for something you have to keep believing for.
You don’t need polished or formal language for it \u2014 an honest, plainly worded sentence is enough, something as simple as telling God directly for faith and hope that reinforce each other instead of competing.
After his great victory over the prophets of Baal, Elijah collapsed under a broom tree and asked to die, exhausted and afraid of Jezebel’s threats. God did not lecture him; instead an angel let him sleep, then woke him twice to eat bread and drink water before sending him on a forty-day journey to Horeb (1 Kings 19:4-8). Only after he was fed and rested did God speak to him in a still, small voice, gently, without any hurry at all.
Among these Bible Verses For Faith and Hope, Elijah’s collapse shows that hope sometimes needs physical rest and simple care before it can be spoken to at all. God met his exhaustion with bread before He met it with a word, long before He ever addressed the deeper fear underneath it.
Ezekiel was shown a valley full of dry, scattered bones and asked whether they could live again. He answered honestly that only God knew, and as he prophesied over them by God’s command, the bones came together, gained flesh, and finally received breath and stood up as a great army, more numerous than anyone watching could have imagined at the start (Ezekiel 37:1-10). God explained that the vision represented Israel’s own hopeless exile, saying their hope was not lost even though they felt completely cut off.
Among these Bible Verses For Faith and Hope, this vision offers one of Scripture’s boldest pictures: hope restoring something that looked entirely, permanently dead, not merely wounded or weakened.
Beaten and locked in stocks in the inner prison at Philippi, Paul and Silas prayed and sang hymns to God at midnight while the other prisoners listened (Acts 16:25). An earthquake then shook the foundations loose, yet instead of escaping, they stayed and became the means of the jailer’s own conversion that same night.
Among these Bible Verses For Faith and Hope, this scene is striking because their hope was audible before their circumstances changed at all. They sang in the dark, not after the doors opened, showing that hope can be voiced before any visible relief arrives.
Caught in a violent storm that lasted many days with no sun or stars visible, the sailors on Paul’s ship had given up all hope of being saved. Paul stood among them and announced that an angel had told him no life would be lost, urging them to “be of good cheer” and trust what he had been told (Acts 27:20-25). Every person on board survived exactly as he had said.
Among these Bible Verses For Faith and Hope, Paul’s confidence held steady for the whole ship, not only for himself. His hope became something the frightened crew could lean on even before the storm itself had ended.
A widow at Zarephath was gathering sticks to cook one final meal for herself and her son before expecting to starve, when Elijah asked her to make him bread first and promised that her flour and oil would not run out until the drought ended (1 Kings 17:12-14). She obeyed despite having almost nothing left, and the jar of meal and cruse of oil did not fail for many days.
Among these Bible Verses For Faith and Hope, her story shows hope acted out at the very edge of despair, when she truly believed she had nothing left to give.
Lord, You fed Elijah before You spoke to him, and You breathed life into bones that looked permanently dead. You let Paul and Silas sing before their chains fell away, and You steadied a frightened ship through Paul’s confidence. You stretched a widow’s last handful of flour further than she thought possible.
Meet me in my own exhaustion the way You met Elijah, with rest before instruction. Give me a hope I can voice honestly even in the dark, and let me trust You with whatever small, almost-empty thing I still have left to offer today. Amen.
Some assume hope must feel strong and unwavering to count as real, so complete exhaustion or a wish to give up, like Elijah’s under the broom tree, must mean their faith has failed. Scripture shows God caring for Elijah’s body first, without any rebuke for his despair. Bible Verses For Faith and Hope include honest weariness, not only triumphant confidence.
Paul and Silas correct a second assumption, that hope only belongs after circumstances improve. They sang at midnight, still in chains, before anything outwardly changed, and Ezekiel’s dry bones correct a third: that some situations are simply too far gone for hope to reach at all, no matter how long the ruin has already lasted for those living through it.
Each day pairs a story of hope, drawn from these Bible Verses For Faith and Hope, with a short verse to carry through the day.
Sit with each question rather than rushing to the next one.
If exhaustion is the real issue underneath your discouragement, address rest and basic care first, the way God fed Elijah before speaking to him. Say one honest sentence of hope out loud today, even if your circumstances have not changed yet, echoing Paul and Silas singing before the earthquake ever came. For more encouragement, see Bible Verses About Faith and Hope and Bible Verses About Hope in Hard Times.
Consider also giving away or offering the small thing you have been holding back out of fear of scarcity, the way the widow gave Elijah bread first, before her own flour and oil ran out. Practicing that kind of trust keeps these Bible Verses For Faith and Hope rooted in real, weekly decisions rather than only in quiet moments of reading, even when the situation right in front of you still looks a little like a valley of dry bones waiting patiently for new breath to arrive.
Jeremiah 29:11 is stuck on coffee mugs and graduation cards, usually with the surrounding chapter cut off. Read the whole thing and it gets stranger and better. The prophet is writing a letter to people who have been dragged to Babylon, hundreds of miles from home, and the first thing he tells them is not to pack. Build houses. Plant gardens. Marry, have children, and seek the good of the city where you are being held.
Only then, after telling them the exile will last seventy years, does God say, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” Most of the people hearing that letter would never see Jerusalem again. The promise reached their grandchildren.
That is worth sitting with if your own waiting has dragged on. The verse does not promise a quick rescue or that every plan you drew up will come true. It promises that God has not lost track of you and that the story has an end He is shaping. In the meantime, the letter gives oddly practical instructions: keep living, keep working, keep praying for the people around you. Hope in this passage looks like a person planting tomatoes in a place they did not choose.
Psalm 130 begins from the bottom: “Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.” The writer is not sure of his standing, and he says so. Then, near the end, he reaches for a picture anyone who has worked a night shift will recognize. “My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.”
The repetition is the whole point. Ancient city watchmen stood on the walls through the dark hours, tired and cold, knowing that dawn was certain even when it felt very far off. They were not hoping the sun might come. They were waiting on something that had never once failed to arrive. Their only question was how long the night would last.
Verse 5 says, “I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.” Notice where the hope is placed. It is in the word, in what God has said, and not in how the writer feels at three in the morning. Anyone who has sat up with a feverish child or a failing parent knows that feelings at that hour are poor guides. A spoken promise is steadier. Reading these lines aloud in a dark room can be an act of keeping watch.
Micah 7 opens with the prophet sounding like a man who has searched an orchard after harvest and found nothing left to pick. The godly are gone from the land, he says. Neighbors cannot be trusted, and even your own household might turn on you. It is a miserable chapter to start in.
Then comes a hinge in verse 7: “Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.” That word “therefore” is stubborn. Because the surroundings are hopeless, he looks upward. He does not wait until things improve and then decide to trust. He chooses it from inside the mess.
A few verses later he adds, “Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.” Look at the honesty. He expects to fall, and he expects to sit in darkness. Hope here does not deny either one. It simply refuses to treat them as permanent. If you are reading this in a season where the people and institutions you counted on have let you down, Micah gives you permission to say so plainly and to wait on God in the very same breath.
Paul was not writing from a comfortable chair when he composed 2 Corinthians 4:16-18. He had been beaten, stoned, and hungry, and he carried a thorn he had begged God to remove. So when he says, “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day,” he is describing his own experience, not offering a slogan.
He goes on to call his troubles “light” and “for a moment,” which can sound insulting until you notice he is weighing them against “a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” He is not saying pain feels small. He is saying that laid on one side of a scale, all of it still comes out lighter than what is waiting on the other.
The closing line of the passage is the practical one: “we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal.” Looking is a habit. Some mornings it means opening the phone to a verse before the news. Other mornings it means telling a friend, “I can’t see anything good today, remind me.” Aging bodies, tight budgets and long illnesses are real, and Paul never waves them away. He just won’t let them have the last word on what is true.
Romans 12:12 is a single short line with three pieces: “Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.” The old word “instant” means constant or persistent, not quick. Paul puts the three side by side as if they belong in one household.
Picture a hospital waiting room at two in the afternoon. A woman has been there since morning, holding a paper cup of cold tea. Rejoicing may be too big a word for what she feels. But she can hope in the quiet way of expecting that God is present in that building. She can be patient by not snapping at the nurse. She can keep praying, sometimes with words and sometimes with only a long breath. None of it looks like a revival meeting, and all of it counts.
Paul wrote this to ordinary Roman believers who were juggling jobs, families, and a hostile empire, and he gave them something they could actually do on a Tuesday. If big declarations feel out of reach right now, start with the smallest piece. Pray one honest sentence. Then see whether the other two follow, slowly, behind it.
Other collections you may find useful: Bible Verses About Faith and Hope, Bible Verses About Faith, Bible Verses About Living By Faith, Bible Verses About Hope and Bible Verses About Faith in Hard Times.
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Hope often has to be chosen again each morning. Lamentations 3:21-26 shows Jeremiah doing exactly that. Surrounded by ruin, he calls to mind God’s mercies and says it is good to hope and quietly wait.
This page brings together 16 King James Version references about faith and Hope, drawn from 8 different books of the Bible.
Beyond the references highlighted on this page, faith and Hope appears throughout Scripture in books such as Lamentations, Psalms, Romans, Hebrews, 1 Kings; this collection focuses on some of the clearest examples.
These faith and Hope verses are drawn from books including Lamentations, Psalms, Romans, Hebrews, 1 Kings, among others.
Yes. The verses about faith and Hope gathered here include passages from both the Old Testament and the New Testament, such as Lamentations 3:21 and Romans 12:12.
