Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
3 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “hope” →
Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.