18 Bible Verses about expectations

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

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the revealing of the sons of God.

As the people were in expectation, and all men questioned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he were the Christ,

because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel

men fainting from fear and foreboding of what is coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries.

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

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be ashamed in anything, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For he is kind to the ungrateful and evil.

And they did not do as we expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.

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

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more.

And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much back.

looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,

When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."

But our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;