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 Jehovah passed by before him and proclaimed, Jehovah! Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation.
But You, O God, are God full of pity, and gracious, long-suffering, and rich in mercy and truth.
O Jehovah, You know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on those who seek to hurt me. Do not take me away in Your long-suffering; know that for Your sake I have suffered rebuke.
But as he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded that he, and his wife and children, and all that he had, be sold, and payment be made.
And his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, Have patience with me and I will pay you all.
And shall not God avenge His own elect who cry day and night to Him, though He has been long-suffering over them?
you being especially expert in all customs and questions among the Jews. Therefore I beseech you to hear me patiently.
Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and the forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction;
Charity has patience, is kind; charity is not envious, is not vain, is not puffed up;
in stripes, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
But the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,
being empowered with all power, according to the might of His glory, to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness,
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender feelings of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering,
But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, as a pattern to those being about to believe on Him to life everlasting.
After the first and second warning, reject a man of heresy,
that you be not slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and the latter rain.
My brothers, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering ill, and of patience.
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
And think of the long-suffering of our Lord as salvation (as our beloved brother Paul also has written to you according to the wisdom given to him