18 Bible Verses about expectations
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mankind impatiently desire that the divine being would display himself to his creatures,
As the people were in suspence, every man imagining in his own mind that John might be the Messiah;
for the sake of that happiness, which you hope for, and is reserv'd for you in heaven, of which you have already been inform'd by the preaching of the truth, that is, the gospel:
men dying with fear under the apprehension of those calamities, which are coming upon the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
and nothing is to be expected but that dreadful judgment, and fiery indignation, which shall devour all such adversaries.
Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has regenerated us, and given us by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the expectation of immortal life,
Now faith is the foundation of our hopes of happiness, and the persuasion we have about things not evident to our senses.
agreeably to that expectation and persuasion I have, that I shall not labour in vain; but as I always have, so I shall still glorify Christ in my body, whether it be by life or by death: for if I live, I live to Christ;
but as for you, love your enemies, do good, and lend without expecting any advantage from it: so shall your reward be great, in acting like the children of the most high: for he is kind to the most ungrateful wretches.
and in this they out-did my expectation; such was the divine pleasure, they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then made me an offer to go themselves to Corinth.
that being justified by his favour, we should have the inheritance of eternal life, according to our hopes.
for tho' I am independent of all men, yet have I subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more.
if you lend with the expectation of gaining by it, where's the obligation? for the heathen lend to one another, for the prospect of an equivalent.
in expectation of that desirable happiness, the glorious appearance of the supreme God, and of our saviour Jesus Christ,
said he, I know for certain, that the Lord has sent his angel, and has deliver'd me from the hands of Herod, and from what the Jews were in expectation of.
but we are the denisons of heaven, from whence we expect the saviour Jesus Christ our Lord.
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