²³ Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word:

¹³ Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹ Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.

²⁵ But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

¹⁰ And this is the purpose of all our work and our fighting, because our hope is in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and specially of those who have faith.

¹ The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

²⁷ To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

²⁴ Put away fear and let your heart be strong, all you whose hope is in the Lord.

⁵ Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

² O my God, I have put my faith in you, let me not be shamed; let not my haters be glorying over me.

³ Let no servant of yours be put to shame; may those be shamed who are false without cause.

⁴ Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.

¹¹ For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.

¹¹ Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

³ And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

²⁴ For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?

²⁵ But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

²⁶ And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;

¹⁵ But give honour to Christ in your hearts as your Lord; and be ready at any time when you are questioned about the hope which is in you, to give an answer in the fear of the Lord and without pride;

¹¹⁴ You are my secret place and my breastplate against danger; my hope is in your word.

⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;

⁵ And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

³¹ But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.

²⁴ I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.

⁸¹ <CAPH> My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.

⁷ And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

³ My voice will come to you in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I send my prayer to you, and keep watch.

²² Let your mercy be on us, O Lord, as we are waiting for you.

⁷ The Lord will keep you safe from all evil; he will take care of your soul.

⁸ The Lord will keep watch over your going out and your coming in, from this time and for ever.

³ And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

⁴ And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:

⁵ And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

¹⁸ And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,

³ Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

⁵ My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my hope.

¹ For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

² Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.

³ And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

⁴ After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints,

⁵ Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,

⁶ Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;

⁵ Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.

²⁸ Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

¹² Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.

¹³ But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

¹⁴ For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.

¹⁵ For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.

¹⁷ Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;

¹² Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

⁵ I am waiting for the Lord, my soul is waiting for him, and my hope is in his word.

⁷ But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.

¹² Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

²⁰ Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.

⁵ You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea;

¹⁷ A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.

¹⁸ See, the eye of the Lord is on those in whose hearts is the fear of him, on those whose hope is in his mercy;

¹⁹ To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

²⁰ Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.

¹⁶ Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.

¹³ But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

¹⁸ For the poor will not be without help; the hopes of those in need will not be crushed for ever.

⁷ So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.