Scripture Verses for the Year of Hope

Pope Francis has declared 2025 as the Year of Hope. Colleen Mallette shares Scripture verses about hope to support your prayer life this year.

Pope Francis declared 2025 as the Jubilee Year of Hope. He stated in his February 2022 letter announcing the Jubilee 2025:

We must fan the flame of hope that has been given us and help everyone to gain new strength and certainty by looking to the future with an open spirit, a trusting heart and far-sighted vision. The forthcoming Jubilee can contribute greatly to restoring a climate of hope and trust as a prelude to the renewal and rebirth that we so urgently desire.  (Pope Francis)

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With our world in such turmoil with immoral, materialistic, relativism attitudes, wars and natural disasters, we all could use more hope. Then love of God is based on the three Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity (see below 1 Thessalonians 1:3). Believing in Him and living a life of love and service gives us Eternal Hope. This hope helps us get through all types of circumstances with a feeling of peace and joy unattainable any other way.

To help you maintain this focus on the virtue of Hope, I’ve listed several Bible verses that emphasize this virtue. Include them in your daily prayers and take the messages into your heart and soul. Write down your favorite few and hang them around your house as reminders to live with God’s Hope throughout the year, or download our printable list of verses!

Scripture verses about hope:

From the Old Testament:

They that hope in the Lord will renew their strength, they will soar on eagles’ wings; they will run and not grow weary, walk and not grow faint. (Isaiah 40:31)

You are my hope, Lord; my trust, God, from my youth. ... I will always hope in You and add to all Your praise. (Psalm 71:5, 14)

The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior, Who will rejoice over you with gladness, and renew you in His love, Who will sing joyfully because of you. (Zephaniah 3:17)

For I know well the plans I have in mind for you — oracle of the Lord — plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope. (Jeremiah 29:11)

From the New Testament:

Hold fast to the hope that lies before us. This we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm. (Hebrews 6:18-19)

Let us hold unwaveringly to our confession that gives us hope, for He who made the promise is trustworthy. (Hebrews 10:23)

We give thanks to God always for all of you, remembering you in our prayers, unceasingly, calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father. (1 Thessalonians 1:2-3)

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13)

Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope. (1 Peter 3:15)

For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control. (2 Timothy 1:7)