Without Hope

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

• Life

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

• Brother
• Glory
• Pure

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

• Despondency

And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.

Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

• Character

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

• Circumcision

Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

• Vision

And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.