Reference: Longsuffering
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In the OT the RV uses this word only in Jer 15:15, where it is the translation of a phrase usually rendered 'slow to anger' (cf. Ex 34:6; Nu 14:18; Ps 86:15, in which passages AV has 'longsuffering').
In the NT 'longsuffering' is the usual tr of makrothumia and the corresponding verb. (The only exceptions are 'patience,' Heb 6:12; Jas 5:10; cf. vh. in Mt 18:25,29; Jas 5:7 f.; and adv. in Ac 26:3). The RV improves on AV by using 'longsuffering' in Lu 18:7; 1Th 5:14. The Gr. word means 'a long holding out of the mind before it gives room to action or passion
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And as he was not able to pay, his master ordered that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.
So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you back.'
And will not God bring about justice for his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
because you are especially familiar with all customs and controversies of the Jews; therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.
Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
What if God, choosing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant
in beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, sleeplessness, hunger,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,
May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy,
So, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience;
But I received mercy for this reason, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience for an example to those who would believe in him for eternal life.
Warn a man who is factious once, and then warn him a second time. After that, have nothing to do with him,
so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rains.
As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you.