The Fruits of Hope

Joy—“Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ … and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.” Romans 5:1,2

Courage—“Tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed.” Romans 5:3-5

Salvation—“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?” Romans 8:24

Patience—“If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.” Romans 8:25

Assurance—“Hope we have as an anchor of the soul.” Hebrews 6:19

Purity—“Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself.” 1 John 3:3

Fruitfulness—“Blessed is the man … whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7,8

Watchfulness—“I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in His word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning.” Psalm 130:5,6

Comfort—“Sorrow not, even as others which have no hope…. The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout … and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them…. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Tranquility—“Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.” Psalm 42:11

Readiness—“Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you.” 1 Peter 3:15