18 Bible Verses about expectations

But when we hope for something that we do not see, we wait persistently for it.

For creation is waiting with eager longing for the sons of God to be disclosed.

As all this aroused people's expectations, and they were all wondering in their hearts whether John was the Christ,

and for the hope of what is stored up for you in heaven. You first heard of it long ago when the true message of the gospel

Men will swoon with fear and foreboding of what is to happen to the world, for the forces in the sky will shake.

but only the dreadful prospect of judgment and that blazing indignation which is to devour God's enemies.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has caused us to be born anew to a life of hope through Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead,

Faith means the assurance of what we hope for; it is our conviction about things that we cannot see.

for I eagerly and confidently hope that I shall never disgrace myself but that this time as always hitherto, living or dying, I shall do Christ credit by my unfailing courage.

But love your enemies, and help them and lend to them, never despairing, and you will be richly rewarded, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the wicked.

They did far more than I hoped, for first in obedience to God's will, they gave themselves to the Lord, and to me.

So since I have such a hope, I speak with great frankness,

so that we might be made upright through his mercy and become possessors of eternal life in fulfilment of our hope.

Though I am free from anyone's control, I have made myself everyone's slave, so as to win over all the more.

And if you lend only to people from whom you expect to get something, what merit is there in that? Even godless people lend to godless people, meaning to get it back again in full.

while we wait for the fulfilment of our blessed hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus.

Then Peter came to himself, and he said, "Now I am certain that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from the power of Herod and all that the Jewish people were expecting."

But the commonwealth to which we belong is in heaven, and from it we are eagerly awaiting the coming of a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.