Quotes About Hope

saying, “I will surely bless you and multiply your descendants.”

And so Abraham, after waiting patiently, obtained the promise.

Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.

Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

But because Jesus lives forever, He has a permanent priesthood.

Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.

But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.

For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

Since that time, He waits for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet,

because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First He says:

Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

And where these have been forgiven, an offering for sin is no longer needed.

by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.