33 Bible Verses about expectations

For surely there is a future hope; and your expectation shall not be cut off.

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.

When a wicked man dies, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perishes.

My soul, wait you only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

And as the people were in expectation, and all men questioned in their hearts concerning John, whether he was the Christ, or not;

My voice shall you hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto you, and will look up.

The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your hope shall not be cut off.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

And now, Lord, what do I wait for? my hope is in you.

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking toward those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

And I said, My strength and my hope has perished from the LORD:

But a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

And this they did, not as we expected, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

The LORD is righteous: he has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their glory.

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

For though I am free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thanks have you? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.

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

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

And when Peter had come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord has sent his angel, and has delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

For our citizenship is in heaven; from which also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ:

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as one dying.