But I will hope continually, and will yet praise you more and more.
Though he slays me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him.
Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plentiful redemption.
Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother’s body: my praise shall be continually of you.
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all discernment;
And indeed you do it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia: but we plead with you, brethren, that you increase more and more;
Do not cast away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward.
Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.