And everyone who has this hope focused<n id="1" /> on him purifies<n id="2" /> himself, just as Jesus<n id="3" /> is pure).<n id="4" />p>

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced;i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>my bodyi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>also will live in hope,i>b>p>

I have<n id="1" /> a hope in God (a hope<n id="2" /> that<n id="3" /> these men<n id="4" /> themselves accept too) that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.<n id="5" />

a promise<n id="1" /> that our twelve tribes hope to attain as they earnestly serve God<n id="2" /> night and day. Concerning this hope the Jews are accusing me,<n id="3" /> Your Majesty!<n id="4" />

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a violent<n id="1" /> storm continued to batter us,<n id="2" /> we finally abandoned all hope of being saved.<n id="3" />p>

So for this reason I have asked to see you and speak with you, for I am bound with this chain because of the hope of Israel.&#8221;<n id="1" />

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice<n id="1" /> in the hope of God&#8217;s glory.

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God<n id="1" /> has been poured out<n id="2" /> in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.p>

For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

Your faith and love have arisen<n id="1" /> from the hope laid up<n id="2" /> for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel<n id="3" />

For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of<n id="1" /> before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you?

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now we do not want you to be uninformed,<n id="1" /> brothers and sisters,<n id="2" /> about those who are asleep,<n id="3" /> so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.

so that we who have found refuge in him<n id="1" /> may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.

Through him you now trust<n id="1" /> in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.p>

But when her owners<n id="1" /> saw their hope of profit<n id="2" /> was gone, they seized<n id="3" /> Paul and Silas and dragged<n id="4" /> them into the marketplace before the authorities.

<p class="bodytext">Then when Paul noticed<n id="1" /> that part of them were Sadducees<n id="2" /> and the others Pharisees,<n id="3" /> he shouted out in the council,<n id="4" /> &#8220;Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection<n id="5" /> of the dead!&#8221;

But if we are afflicted,<n id="1" /> it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

Nor do we boast beyond certain limits<n id="1" /> in the work<n id="2" /> done by others, but we hope<n id="3" /> that as your faith continues to grow, our work may be greatly expanded<n id="4" /> among you according to our limits,<n id="5" />

&#8211; since the eyes of your<n id="1" /> heart have been enlightened<n id="2" /> &#8211; so that you may know what is the hope of his calling,<n id="3" /> what is the wealth of his glorious<n id="4" /> inheritance in the saints,

that you were at that time without the Messiah,<n id="1" /> alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise,<n id="2" /> having no hope and without God in the world.