Bible Verses About Hope for Preparing for Death

"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."

"Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;"

"Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord."

"And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us."

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,"

"The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him."

"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."

"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."

"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;"

"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself."

"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

"We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me."

"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"