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Want to know what the Bible says about Expectations? Here are 73 Bible verses about Expectations from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Luke 12:40 NIV
You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”
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John 15:5 NIV
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
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Luke 21:26 NIV
People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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Titus 2:13 NIV
while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
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Matthew 24:44 NIV
So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
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Romans 8:25 NIV
But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
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Matthew 24:50 NIV
The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of.
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James 1:17 NIV
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
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Genesis 1:26 NIV
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
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Matthew 24:3 NIV
As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
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Acts 3:2 NIV
Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts.
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Job 41:9 NIV
Any hope of subduing it is false;
    the mere sight of it is overpowering.
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Hebrews 10:27 NIV
but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
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Mark 15:43 NIV
Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body.
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Joshua 1:8 NIV
Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
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Lamentations 3:18 NIV
So I say, “My splendor is gone
    and all that I had hoped from the Lord.”
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Isaiah 20:5 NIV
Those who trusted in Cush and boasted in Egypt will be dismayed and put to shame.
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Isaiah 20:6 NIV
In that day the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape? ’”
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Zechariah 9:5 NIV
Ashkelon will see it and fear;
    Gaza will writhe in agony,
    and Ekron too, for her hope will wither.
Gaza will lose her king
    and Ashkelon will be deserted.
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