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BA52
Setting Our Hope on God

BA52

We are to set our hope on God.

Category: God & Yeshua

Type: Positive

Form: Explicit

Source dataset: New Testament

Uniqueness: Unique

Classical commandment: No

New Covenant Literal Application

Applies to Person Categories: Everyone

Literal Application: mandated

More explanation about New Covenant Literal Application

The New Covenant Literal Application Code (NCLA) is an interpretive guide used by the authors to indicate which person categories a mitzvah applies to, and at what level of literal compliance.

It combines person categories such as Jewish, K'rov Yisrael, and Gentile, together with male/female distinctions and an application level such as mandated, recommended, optional, or prohibited.

This code reflects the authors' interpretive opinion and is provided for prayerful consideration. On this page, the technical code is summarized into plain language to help new readers understand it more easily.

Detailed codes: GFm - Gentile female, mandated | GMm - Gentile male, mandated | JFm - Jewish female, mandated | JMm - Jewish male, mandated | KFm - K'rovat Yisrael female, mandated | KMm - K'rov Yisrael male, mandated

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Bible references

Key NT Scriptures
  • 2 Corinthians 1:10
  • 1 Timothy 4:10
  • 1 Timothy 6:17
Supportive NT Scriptures
  • Acts 24:15
  • Hebrews 6:19
  • 1 Peter 3:5
  • Romans 5:3-5
  • Romans 15:12-13
  • 1 Timothy 5:5
  • Titus 1:1-3
  • Titus 2:11-13
Supportive OT Scriptures
  • Lamentations 3:21-26

  • Psalms 31:25
  • Psalms 33:22
  • Psalms 39:8
  • Psalms 42:6
  • Psalms 71:5
  • Psalms 130:7
  • Psalms 146:5

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Commentary

Rabbi Michael Rudolph

Hoping is wishing for something in the future combined with an expectation or sense of the likelihood that what is hoped for will (or at least can) come to pass. One cannot rationally hope for that which one believes is impossible, but with God all things are possible. When considering the expression “hope on/in God,” it is reasonable to ask “hope for what?” We can hope for anything we want, but its use in the Bible assumes that we are hoping for that which God wants as well. Hope and faith are not the same. Hope is the anticipation of something that we desire that may or may not come to pass, whereas faith, when properly applied, knows that something will come to pass because God has revealed it. Hebrews 11:1 says it this way: “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” This Mitzvah (“We are to set our hope on God”) infers that we should not hope for anything or in anyone other than in God.


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