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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Jehovah then passed in front of him and called out: I, Jehovah, am a God who is full of compassion and pity. I am not easily angered and show great love and faithfulness.
Jehovah is patient, forever loving; He forgives wrongdoing and disobedience. He never lets the guilty go unpunished. In fact he punishes children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation.
But you, O Jehovah, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient, always faithful and ready to forgive.
Then I said: O Jehovah you understand. Remember me and help me. Let me have revenge on those who persecute me. Do not be so patient with them that they succeed in killing me. Remember that it is for your sake that I have suffered reproach.
He was not able to make payment. So his lord gave orders for him to be sold. His wife, sons, and daughters were all to be sold along with every possession. The money would be used for payment of what he owed.
That servant fell down before him, saying, 'Give me time and I will make payment to you.'
Should God avenge his chosen that cry to him day and night, and yet he is longsuffering over them?
I know you are an expert in all customs and controversy among the Jews. Therefore I urge you to hear me patiently.
Do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and long-suffering? Do you not know that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
If God decided to show his wrath and make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fit for destruction.
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag and is not arrogant (proud).
in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watching, in fasting;
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
Walk with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, putting up with one another in love.
God will strengthen you with all power, according to the might of his glory, to all patience and longsuffering with joy.
As God's chosen, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness (humility), meekness (mildness), and long-suffering (patience).
For this I obtained mercy, which in me as the foremost sinner Jesus Christ might show his long-suffering. This is for an example to those who should later believe in him for eternal life.
A divisive and dissentious man should be admonished, and after two times have nothing to do with that man.
We desire that you are not lazy, but follow those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and late rains.
Brothers, accept the example of suffering and patience by the prophets who spoke in the name of God.
Jehovah is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness. He is longsuffering (patient) toward you. He does not wish that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Consider the patience of our Lord as salvation. Just as our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you.