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 could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all he had, in payment of the debt.
So his fellow-slave threw himself down before him, and begged him, 'Give me time, and I will pay you.'
Then will not God provide protection for his chosen people, who cry out to him day and night?
especially because you are so familiar with all the Jewish customs and questions. I beg you, therefore, to listen to me with patience.
Do you think so lightly of his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience, and fail to see that God's kindness ought to induce you to repent?
Then what if God, though he wanted to display his anger and show his power, has shown great patience toward the objects of his anger, already ripe for destruction,
Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious or boastful. It does not put on airs.
beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger,
But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
with perfect humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another lovingly.
Then, so mighty is his majesty, he will nerve you perfectly with strength for the cheerful exercise of endurance and forbearance in every situation,
As persons chosen by God, then, consecrated and dearly loved, you must clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, forbearance.
but God had mercy on me in order that in my case as the foremost, Christ Jesus might display his perfect patience, as an example to those who would later believe in him and find eternal life.
If a man is inclined to a sect, after warning him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him.
so that you may never grow careless, but may learn to follow the example of those who through their faith and endurance are the possessors of God's promises.
So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer has to wait for the precious crop from the ground, and be patient with it, until it gets the early and the late rains.
As an example, brothers, of ill-treatment patiently endured, take the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
The Lord is not slow about his promise, in the sense that some men think; he is really showing his patience with you, because he does not want any to perish, but wishes all men to be brought to repentance.
Look upon our Lord's patience as salvation, just as our dear brother Paul, with the wisdom that God gave him, wrote you to do,