The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.

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

Know also that wisdom is like honey for you: If you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

The Lord will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.

Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word.

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you.

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.

But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him.

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

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called.

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

I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.

But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people.