Re: Hope

Read The Bible said:

The hope and resurrection of the dead... Acts 23:6

Hope toward God, which they themselves also allow,
that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both
of the just and unjust. Acts 24:15

Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you,
that God should raise the dead? Acts 26:8

Waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of
our body. 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? But if we hope for that we see not,
then do we with patience wait for it. Romans 8:23-25

Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead,
how say some among you that there is no resurrection
of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the
dead, then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not
risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is
also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of
God, because we have testified of God that he raised
up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that the
dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not
Christ raised, and if Christ be not raised, your
faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they
also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
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If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are
of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen
from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them
that slept. For since by man came death, by man came
also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all
die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But
every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;
afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
1 Corinthians 15:12-23

And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye
are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also
of the consolation. For we would not, brethren, have
you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia,
that we were pressed out of measure, above strength,
insomuch that we despaired even of life. But we had
the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should
not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the
dead... 2 Corinthians 1:7-9

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. For if we believe
that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also
which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For
this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we
which are alive and remain unto the coming of the
Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the
Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump
of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise...
1 Thessalonians 4:13-16

The hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us
to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus
Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or
sleep, we should live together with him.
1 Thessalonians 5:8-10

Jesus Christ, which is our hope... 1 Timothy 1:1

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie,
promised before the world began... Titus 1:2

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious
appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ... Titus 2:13

That being justified by his grace, we should be made
heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:7

Christ as a son over his own house, whose house are
we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing
of the hope firm unto the end. Hebrews 3:6

We desire that every one of you do shew the same
diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the
end... Hebrews 6:11

-Faith is the substance of things hoped for...
Hebrews 11:1

Blessed 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, to an
inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that
fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are
kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time. 1 Peter 1:3-5

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from
the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and
hope might be in God. 1 Peter 1:21

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not
yet appear what we shall be, but we know that, when
he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall
see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope
in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
1 John 3:2-3

Amen and amen :-)

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