Bible Verses about “exceeding expectation”
The Bible contains 20 verses about exceeding expectation across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.”
“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;”
“Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,”
“[Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.”
“To the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.”
“¶ Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”
“Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.”
“And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:”
“And not as Moses, [which] put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:”
“But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ.”
“But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.”
“¶ Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:”
“¶ Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some [others], epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation from you?”
“Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:”
“But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away:”
“How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?”
“For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.”
“For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.”
“For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much more that which remaineth [is] glorious.”