Or despisest thou the riches of his kindness and patience and long-suffering, ignorant that this goodness of God is leading thee to repentance?

But what if God, willing to display his wrath, and to make known what is possible with him, hath borne with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for perdition:

Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride],

in purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love;

strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

But for this end obtained I mercy, that in me, the chief, Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to those who should after believe in him unto eternal life.

But thou hast fully known my doctrine, conduct, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience,

preach the word, be urgent, in season, out of season; reprove, enjoin, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

that ye be not slothful, but imitators of those who, by faith and long suffering, are inheriting the promises.

who in time of old were disobedient, when the long suffering of God in the days of Noe waited, while the ark was preparing, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were preserved through the water.

And account the long suffering of our Lord conducive to salvation; as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, hath written unto you;

Yet I make no account of any [suffering], nor regard my life as of any value to myself, farther than as I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord, to testify fully the Gospel of the grace of God.

But we see Jesus for a little while made lower than angels, by the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour, that, by the grace of God, he might taste of death for every one.

they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they experienced the severest trials, they were slain by the edge of the sword: they went about wrapped in skins of sheep and goats, destitute of all things, pressed down with afflictions, suffering all kind of misery;

Remember those who are in chains, as in chains with them; and those who are suffering afflictions, as being yourselves also in the body.

My brethren, take a pattern for suffering affliction, and patience from the prophets, who have spoken to you in the name of the Lord.

For this is gracious conduct, if for conscience towards God, any man undergo sorrows, suffering wrongfully.

As Sodom and Gomorrha and the surrounding cities, in like manner with them abandoned to whoredom, and going after other flesh, are set forth an example, suffering the judicial punishment of eternal fire.

But whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectually wrought by patient endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer; or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

Then Jesus answering, said, O faithless and perverse generation! how long shall I be with you, how long shall I bear with you? bring hither thy son.

Then Jesus answering, said, O generation, faithless, and perverse! how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him hither to me.

Then addressing him, he said, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him to me.

And he said unto them, With earnest desire have I longed to eat this passover with you before I suffer: