29 Bible Verses about patients

But mercy was shown me in order that in me as the foremost of sinners Christ Jesus might display the fulness of His long-suffering patience as an example to encourage those who would afterwards be resting their faith on Him with a view to the Life of the Ages.

By your patient endurance you will purchase your lives.

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the Coming of the Lord. Notice how eagerly a farmer waits for a valuable crop! He is patient over it till it has received the early and the later rain.

So you also must be patient: keeping up your courage; for the Coming of the Lord is now close at hand.

Here is an opportunity for endurance on the part of God's people, who carefully keep His commandments and the faith of Jesus!"

fortitude, ripeness of character; and ripeness of character, hope;

full of joyful hope, patient under persecution, earnest and persistent in prayer.

But if we hope for something which we do not see, then we eagerly and patiently wait for it.

The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise, in the sense in which some men speak of slowness. But He bears patiently with you, His desire being that no one should perish but that all should come to repentance.

I know your doings, your love, your faith, your service, and your patient endurance; and that of late you have toiled harder than you did at first.

Be assured that the testing of your faith leads to power of endurance.

And may the Lord guide your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.

with all lowliness of mind and unselfishness, and with patience, bearing with one another lovingly, and earnestly striving to maintain,

Because in spite of suffering you have guarded My word, I in turn will guard you from that hour of trial which is soon coming upon the whole world, to put to the test the inhabitants of the earth.

along with knowledge, self-control; along with self-control, power of endurance;

Since His power is so glorious, may you be strengthened with strength of every kind, and be prepared for cheerfully enduring all things with patience and long-suffering;

so that you may not become half-hearted, but be imitators of those who through faith and patient endurance are now heirs to the promises.

And so, as the result of patient waiting, our forefather obtained what God had promised.

Do not be indolent when zeal is required. Be thoroughly warm-hearted, the Lord's own servants,

For you stand in need of patient endurance, so that, as the result of having done the will of God, you may receive the promised blessing.

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.

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the timid, sustain the weak, and be patient towards all.

Jesus heard the words, and He said, "It is not the healthy who require a doctor, but the sick: I did not come to appeal to the righteous, but to sinners."

and a bondservant of the Lord must not quarrel, but must be inoffensive towards all men, a skilful teacher, and patient under wrongs.

I am convinced of this, and I know that I shall remain, and shall go on working side by side with you all, to promote your progress and joy in the faith;

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.

to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life of the Ages;

Have full sympathy with one another. Do not give your mind to high things, but let humble ways content you. Do not be wise in your own conceits.

I wish you could have borne with a little foolish boasting on my part. Nay, do bear with me.