Bible Verses About Expectation

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

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

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

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

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.