23 Bible Verses about Patience In Hard Times
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Be assured that the testing of your faith leads to power of endurance.
fortitude, ripeness of character; and ripeness of character, hope;
Only let endurance have perfect results so that you may become perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.
And not only so: we also exult in our sufferings, knowing as we do, that suffering produces fortitude;
full of joyful hope, patient under persecution, earnest and persistent in prayer.
And you endure patiently and have borne burdens for My sake and have never grown weary.
Blessed is he who patiently endures trials; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the victor's crown--even the crown of Life--which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
But if we hope for something which we do not see, then we eagerly and patiently wait for it.
As for us who are strong, our duty is to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not seek our own pleasure.
Why, what we now suffer I count as nothing in comparison with the glory which is soon to be manifested in us.
On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval--by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;
Reckon it nothing but joy, my brethren, whenever you find yourselves hedged in by various trials.
Dear friends, do not be surprised at finding that that scorching flame of persecution is raging among you to put you to the test--as though some surprising thing were accidentally happening to you.
Is one of you suffering? Let him pray. Is any one in good spirits? Let him sing a psalm.
If you do wrong and receive a blow for it, what credit is there in your bearing it patiently? But if when you do right and suffer for it you bear it patiently, this is an acceptable thing with God.
You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, friends; and some of you they will put to death.
In conclusion, strengthen yourselves in the Lord and in the power which His supreme might imparts.
Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence and entreaty on behalf of all God's people,
Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or hunger, nakedness or danger or the sword?
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