17 Bible Verses about expectations

But if we hope for something that we do not see, we wait for it patiently.

Even the creation waits with eager longing for the sons of God to be revealed.

Now as people's expectations were roused and as everybody thought to himself about John, "Can he be the Christ,"

due to the hope which is laid up for you in heaven. You heard of this hope originally in the message of the Truth, in that gospel

men swooning with panic and foreboding of what is to befall the universe. For the orbs of the heavens will be shaken,

nothing but an awful outlook of doom, of that burning Wrath which will consume the foes of God.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Now faith means we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see.

No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

They have done more than I expected; they gave themselves to the Lord, to begin with, and then (for so God willed it) they put themselves at my disposal.

Such being my hope then, I am quite frank and open ??13 not like Moses, who used to hang a veil over his face to keep the children of Israel from gazing at the last rays of a fading glory.

that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

Why, free as I am from all, I have made myself the slave of all, to win over as many as I could.

If you only lend to those from whom you hope to get something, what credit is that to you? Even sinful men lend to one another, so as to get a fair return.

awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,

Then Peter came to his senses and said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were anticipating."

But we are a colony of heaven, and we wait for the Saviour who comes from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ,