'Wait' in the Bible

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high."

Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'

But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell."

While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, "This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.

But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.

Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead -- Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

"In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.