Quotes About Hope

In every prayer for all of you, I always pray with joy,

being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have actually served to advance the gospel.

And most of the brothers, confident in the Lord by my chains, now dare more greatly to speak the word without fear.

because I know that through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, my distress will turn out for my deliverance.

I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.

But it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.

Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith,

so that through my coming to you again your exultation in Christ Jesus will resound on account of me.

without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a clear sign of their destruction but of your salvation, and it is from God.

since you are encountering the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I learn how you are doing.

So I hope to send him as soon as I see what happens with me.

And I trust in the Lord that I myself will come soon.

He was sick indeed, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious.

and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

I press on toward the goal to win the prize of Godís heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.