Hope

Hope here carries an implicit weight — David didn't just hope the worship momentum would continue; he built structures so it couldn't collapse, turning aspiration into sustainable practice.

Hope is named as one of the three enduring virtues, but like faith it has a built-in terminus — when every promise is fulfilled, hope dissolves into reality, while love continues unchanged.

Hope here is the forward-looking expectation of seeing Jesus face to face, which John presents not as passive waiting but as an active force that purifies how believers live right now.

Hope is deliberately contrasted here with the stronger word 'know' — John's point is that eternal life isn't merely something believers wish for or expect, but something they can be certain they already possess.

Hope is named here as one of the chapter's two movements — the unlikely gathering of broken people around a fugitive that signals God's purposes forming even in hiding.

Hope here is used ironically — the passage notes what one would hope a king would do (seek God) while implying that Saul's seeking is too little, too late, and ultimately fruitless.

Hope completes Paul's triad here, characterized by endurance rather than passive wishing — the Thessalonians' hope in Christ was actively sustaining them through ongoing pressure.

Hope appears here as the forward-facing anchor of the entire chapter — Paul will spend the second half making it concrete enough to hear, describing resurrection with sounds and sequence rather than vague comfort.

Hope is used here almost sarcastically — contrasting the naive approach of simply hoping an untested volunteer works out against Paul's deliberate call to prove leaders before appointing them.

Hope is invoked here as insufficient on its own — Jehoshaphat doesn't just tear down idols and hope people figure out what to believe, but actively fills the gap with organized Scripture teaching.

Hope is what Sennacherib is deliberately targeting — his propaganda is engineered to destroy the people's confidence in God so they will surrender out of despair before the siege can be broken.

Hope appears here as the chapter's final note — Josiah's name at the close signals that despite Amon's failure, God's purposes for Judah are not finished, and a righteous king is about to change everything.

Hope surfaces here in Paul's posture as he writes from a distance — he genuinely wants reconciliation before the visit, not confrontation, and that desire shapes the tone of his closing words.

Hope is the quality Paul's fragrance image conveys for those being saved — to people open to God, the aroma of a faithfully lived life smells like exactly what they've been searching for.

Hope is conspicuously absent here — the chapter ends without it, and the writer intentionally resists offering comfort, asking the reader to sit honestly in the wreckage.

Hope is the wound the Shunammite had deliberately closed — the text notes she had stopped expecting a child, making the miracle birth that much more devastating when the boy suddenly dies.

Hope is exactly what the king cannot afford to feel — after months of siege and starvation, he interprets the best news of his reign as a trap, because sustained suffering has made expectation feel dangerous.

David's hope here is desperate and self-deceiving — he tells himself that because Ahimaaz is a good man, the news must be good, revealing how completely his heart was fixed on Absalom's survival.

Hope surfaces here in describing how a good spiritual mentor opens — not with demands or corrections, but with genuine, expectant desire for the other person's flourishing in every dimension of life.

Hope in the resurrection is the theological hinge of Paul's defense — he claims it is a conviction he shares with his accusers, making their charges of heresy internally inconsistent.

Hope here is Paul's radical reframing of what he is actually on trial for — not a crime, but the ancestral expectation of resurrection that Israel has carried for centuries and that Paul says has now been fulfilled.

Hope is mentioned here in its crisis form — the crew losing it entirely — contrasting with what Paul is about to demonstrate: confidence grounded not in circumstances but in God's word.

Hope is what this chapter intentionally withholds — the text closes without it, a deliberate structural choice that forces the reader to sit with the full weight of what Israel's choices have brought upon them.

Hope is the third element of the Colossians' spiritual health Paul celebrates — a confident expectation stored up in heaven that anchors their faith and fuels their love.

Hope is invoked here precisely as something the three men are not clinging to as a condition — their faith explicitly doesn't depend on things working out the way they hope.

Hope appears here on the lips of a pagan king — Darius expresses genuine expectation that Daniel's God might actually deliver him, making this one of the most striking moments of faith in the chapter.

Hope is what sets Israel's grief apart from the nations — because their God is present and has chosen them, they mourn differently than those who practice pagan death rituals.

Hope surfaces here as the unexpected emotional register of Deuteronomy 30 — after chapters of warnings and curses, Moses pivots to God's promise of restoration, making this passage a turning point.

Hope surfaces unexpectedly here amid the death imagery — the quiet affirmation that the spirit returns to God who gave it offers a counterpoint to the vapor motif, suggesting the human soul is not simply extinguished at death.

Hope is used here in its starkest negative form — Paul says Gentiles outside of Christ had none of it, meaning they had no covenantal promises to anchor their future to.

Hope is invoked here to describe what the counter-decree carries as it travels through the same postal channels Haman used to distribute his kill order — the infrastructure of death now delivering rescue.

Hope here is reframed from anxious waiting into confident expectation — God's table is always set, the bread always out, so approaching Him requires no perfect timing or guessing at His mood.