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Bible Verses About Expectations
Find Bible verses about expectations — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about expectations?
The Bible addresses expectations with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
John 3:10
“Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?”
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Luke 19:11
“As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately.”
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2 Kings 5:11
“But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, "Behold, I thought, 'He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.'”
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2 Corinthians 12:20
“For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;”
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Acts 25:18
“Concerning whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no charge of such things as I supposed;”
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1 Kings 9:12
“Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn't please him.”
1 Kings 10:7
“However I didn't believe the words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it. Behold, the half was not told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.”
Genesis 48:19
“His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitu...”
Ezekiel 7:7
“Your doom has come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time has come, the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, on the mountains.”
Jeremiah 8:15
“We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!”
Genesis 48:14
“Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.”
2 Chronicles 9:6
“However I didn't believe their words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and behold, the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not told me: you exceed the fame that I heard.”
Psalms 89:38
“But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.”
1 Corinthians 1:22
“For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,”
Haggai 2:16
“Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.”
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