9 Bible Verses about Patience, The Nature Of

Now may the God who gives endurance and who supplies encouragement grant that you be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth [to complain or defend Himself];
Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before her shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.

Now this was the passage of Scripture which he was reading:

“Like a sheep He was led to the slaughter;
And as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
So He does not open His mouth.

But Jesus did not reply to him, not even to a single accusation, so that the governor was greatly astonished.

Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in steadfastness [Christlike in character].

and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, steadfastness, and in your steadfastness, godliness,

And let endurance have its perfect result and do a thorough work, so that you may be perfect and completely developed [in your faith], lacking in nothing.

And not only this, but [with joy] let us exult in our sufferings and rejoice in our hardships, knowing that hardship (distress, pressure, trouble) produces patient endurance;

Be assured that the testing of your faith [through experience] produces endurance [leading to spiritual maturity, and inner peace].