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Want to know what the Bible says about Waiting? Here are 114 Bible verses about Waiting 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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Psalm 59:9 NIV
You are my strength, I watch for you;
    you, God, are my fortress,
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Lamentations 3:26 NIV
it is good to wait quietly
    for the salvation of the Lord.
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Proverbs 20:22 NIV
Do not say, “I’ll pay you back for this wrong!”
    Wait for the Lord, and he will avenge you.
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Isaiah 8:17 NIV
I will wait for the Lord,
    who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob.
I will put my trust in him.
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Psalm 25:21 NIV
May integrity and uprightness protect me,
    because my hope, Lord, is in you.
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Psalm 37:9 NIV
For those who are evil will be destroyed,
    but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.
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Galatians 5:5 NIV
For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope.
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Psalm 62:1 NIV
Truly my soul finds rest in God;
    my salvation comes from him.
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Luke 12:36 NIV
like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.
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Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
    and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,
    and he will make your paths straight.
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Isaiah 25:9 NIV
In that day they will say,
“Surely this is our God;
    we trusted in him, and he saved us.
This is the Lord, we trusted in him;
    let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”
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Romans 12:12 NIV
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
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Isaiah 49:23 NIV
Kings will be your foster fathers,
    and their queens your nursing mothers.
They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground;
    they will lick the dust at your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
    those who hope in me will not be disappointed.
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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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Zephaniah 3:8 NIV
Therefore wait for me,”
    declares the Lord,
    “for the day I will stand up to testify.
I have decided to assemble the nations,
    to gather the kingdoms
and to pour out my wrath on them—
    all my fierce anger.
The whole world will be consumed
    by the fire of my jealous anger.
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Psalm 145:15 NIV
The eyes of all look to you,
    and you give them their food at the proper time.
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1 Corinthians 1:7 NIV
Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.
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Psalm 37:34 NIV
Hope in the Lord
    and keep his way.
He will exalt you to inherit the land;
    when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.
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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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Acts 1:4 NIV
On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.
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