The Believers Hope

The hope of righteousness.

Galatians 5:5

But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope.

The hope of God’s calling.

Ephesians 1:18  

I pray also 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 the saints,

The hope which the lost do not have.

Ephesians 2:12  

Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

The hope of the gospel.

Colossians 1:23  

If you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

The hope of salvation.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

 But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

The “good hope” which God gives.

2 Thessalonians 2:16  

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,

The hope of eternal life.

Titus 1:2  

A faith and knowledge resting on the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,

Titus 3:7  

So that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.

Thoughts

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.  - G. K. Chesterton