33 Bible Verses about expectations

For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

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

The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectation of the wicked will remain unfulfilled.

For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

When a wicked person dies, his expectation perishes, and the hope of his strength perishes.

Patiently wait for God alone, my soul! For he is the one who gives me confidence.

While the people were filled with anticipation and they all wondered whether perhaps John could be the Christ,

Lord, in the morning you will hear me; in the morning I will present my case to you and then wait expectantly for an answer.

What the righteous desire leads only to good, but what the wicked hope for leads to wrath.

Your faith and love have arisen from the hope laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard about in the message of truth, the gospel

Likewise, know that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, you will have a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

for the needy are not permanently ignored, the hopes of the oppressed are not forever dashed.

But now, O Lord, upon what am I relying? You are my only hope!

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

So I said, "My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the Lord."

but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God's enemies.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.

My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people.

And they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

The Lord is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked."

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is like a tree of life.

Those who put their hope in Cush and took pride in Egypt will be afraid and embarrassed.

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness,

And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life."

For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

And if you lend to those from whom you hope to be repaid, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so that they may be repaid in full.

as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

For I know what I have planned for you,' says the Lord. 'I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope.

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

But our citizenship is in heaven -- and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last."