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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but, as he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded that he be sold, and his wife, and his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
His fellow-servant, falling down, therefore, was entreating him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay you!
And will not God avenge His elect, who are crying to Him day and night, and He is long suffering over them?
especially since you are an expert in all matters relating to Jews, both in customs and questions. Wherefore, I beseech you to hear me patiently.
Or, do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God is leading you to repentance?
And what if God, willing to show forth His wrath and to make known His power, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;
Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up,
in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toilings, in watchings, in fastings;
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
with all humility and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;
strengthened with all power, according to the might of His glory, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;
Put on, therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;
but for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me, as chief, Christ Jesus might show forth all His longsuffering for an example to those about to believe on Him unto eternal life.
A factious man, after a first and a second admonition, avoid;
that ye may not become slothful, but imitators of those who, through faith and long-suffering, inherit the promises.
Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth; being patient over it, until it receives the early and latter rain.
Take, brethren, as an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord.
The Lord is not slow respecting the promise, as some account slowness; but He is long-suffering toward you, not wishing 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, wrote to you;