Expectations

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. — read the full passage →

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.

Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

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

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear Yahweh’s word. — read the full passage →

At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. — read the full passage →

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, — read the full passage →

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.” — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, “Look at us.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;

to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.

As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. — read the full passage →

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

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

They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.

A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it, and in an hour when he doesn’t know it,

I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.

He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.

For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know.

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →

and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”