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 had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
And his fellow-servant falling at his feet, besought him saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
And shall not God vindicate his own elect, who cry to him day and night, though he bear long with them?
Who art accurately acquainted with all the customs and questions which are among the Jews, wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
What if God, being willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, yet endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction?
Love suffereth long and is kind; love envieth not; love acteth not rashly, is not puffed up:
in necessities, in distresses, In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, fidelity,
With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering,
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness:
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering:
Yet for this cause I obtained mercy, that on me the chief Jesus Christ might shew all long-suffering, for a pattern to them who should hereafter believe in him to life everlasting.
An heretic after a first and second admonition reject,
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and long suffering inherited the promises.
Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath patience for it, till he receive the early and the latter rain.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering, affliction, and of patience.
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise (tho' some men count it slowness) but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
And account the long-suffering of our Lord salvation, as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you: