hope
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7.9
- noun
- /hoʊp/
- Formal
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esperanza
- God give you faith and hope.
- hope for eternal life
- faith and hope
- hope for salvation
Look to Christ, place your hope in Him, and then push forward.
- Look to Christ, place your hope in Him, and then push forward.
- So what I hope is true is that God is knowable.
- So but God was showing me hope and love had so much hatred in my heart.
- And the and most fundamentalist spiritual part are the faith or hope and love and emotion.
Examples
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Look to Christ, place your hope in Him, and then push forward.
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Detest what is evil, cling to what is good, - rejoice in hope, be patient under trial, -
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And it's my hope that people everywhere feel the presence of that divine.
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Since this hope is for nothing less than communion with God, it is the largest hope.
Academic text (2011) -
I always had such high hopes for you, Reggie.
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These pillars of worship are love, hope and fear.
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In Col. 1:27b, he also spoke of "Christ in you, the hope of glory."
Academic text (2011) -
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
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LordJesus Christ, by Your own three days in the tomb, You allowed the graves of all who believe in You to be made holy, so You made the grave a sign of hope that promises resurrection, even as it claims our mortal bodies.
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In Christian theology, hope is the trust we have in God's promises of eternal life.
Idioms
Compounds
A former province in southern South Africa that split in 1994 into Western, Eastern, and Northern Cape
A former province in western South Africa now part of several modern provinces
- Informal
A last weak attempt to believe things will get better before giving up
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hope in Christian use kept the old idea from hopian of 'expecting' and 'trusting', so it became a virtue meaning trust in God's promises of eternal life. That is why Christians list hope with faith and charity as a guiding strength.