Skip to content
2
The Son · Value 2 of 12

Hope

Obey God’s Word · Order, Stability, Harmony

Peace and prosperity are only possible if society does what is Right by working hard to constantly reject the evil tendencies of our sinful nature.

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” — James 1:22

In practice
8 attributes

There is no top-down solution. Our only hope is to change one heart at a time, starting with our own.

Psalm 130:5
5I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Hebrews 6:19
19Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
Lamentations 3:21-23
21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 22It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Psalm 33:18
18Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
Romans 15:13
13Now 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.
Psalm 42:5
5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psalm 62:5
5My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
John 14:15
15If ye love me, keep my commandments.
1 Peter 1:13
13Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Romans 8:24-25
24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
James 4:8
8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
1 Peter 2:16
16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Romans 13:3-4
3For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: 4For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
James 1:22
22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Proverbs 4:23
23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
John 15:2
2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
2 Corinthians 13:5
5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
1 Corinthians 11:28
28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
Lamentations 3:40
40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Psalm 139:23-24
23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 4:4
4Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Proverbs 4:26
26Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
James 1:23-24
23For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
1 John 1:9
9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Acts 3:19
19Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
Isaiah 1:18
18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Psalm 51:12
12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Psalm 51:17
17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
2 Corinthians 7:10-11
10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 11For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Proverbs 28:13
13He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
John 15:4
4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
2 Corinthians 3:18
18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
Romans 5:3-5
3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Titus 3:5-7
5Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Ephesians 4:32
32And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Philippians 2:2
2Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
John 15:17
17These things I command you, that ye love one another.
1 Corinthians 13:13
13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
John 17:26
26And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Philippians 4:8
8Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Luke 6:35
35But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
John 17:3
3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
1 Peter 1:3-4
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
Romans 8:18
18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Titus 2:13
13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
John 14:27
27Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
1 Corinthians 14:33
33For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Isaiah 32:17
17And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Proverbs 14:34
34Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

Anchor — one of the 53 claims Anvoy is built on: who God is, what Scripture is, what the gospel is, what we are, and what God has instituted. The other 43 are open — how we apply them is yours to work out.

Help
Loading…