And shall not God avenge His elect, crying to Him day and night, and He is long-suffering over them?

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is divine love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

Burt you have followed my teaching, leadership, purpose, faith, long suffering, divine love, patience,

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some people count slackness; but is long-suffering for your sakes, not wishing that any should perish, but all come to repentance.

And seeing a certain one suffering affliction, he interposed, and executed vengeance in behalf of the oppressed one, slaying the Egyptian.

Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of like suffering with you, preaching the gospel to you that you should turn from these vanities to the living God, who created the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things which are in them:

But we see Jesus humiliated somewhat in comparison with the angels, having been crowned with glory and honor on account of the suffering of death, in order that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one.

For it became him, on account of whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in leading many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering.

Remember those bound, as having been bound along with them; those suffering persecutions, as you yourselves being also in the body.

Brethren, receive the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord as an example of suffering evil and longsuffering.

Elijah was a man of like suffering to us, and he prayed with prayer that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the earth during three years and six months;

For this is grace, if, through the conscience of God, one bears sorrows and suffering unjustly.

For what glory is there, if, committing sin and being buffeted, you endure it? But if, doing good and suffering you endure it, this is grace with God.

who, being reviled, reviled not again; suffering, he threatened not, but gave up to the one judging righteously:

So let those indeed suffering according to the will of God submit their souls to the faithful Creator, in good work.

and being in gestation, she also cries, travailing in pain, and suffering to bring forth.

When a woman may bring forth she has sorrow, because her hour has come: but when the little child may be born, she remembers her suffering no more, for the joy that a man has been born into the world.

Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of itself, is not puffed up,

Therefore, O brethren, suffer long, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer receives the precious fruit of the earth, waiting for it, until he may receive the former and latter rain:

you also suffer long; establish your hearts; because the coming of the Lord is nigh.

But if we are troubled it is in behalf of your consolation and salvation; if we are comforted, it is in behalf of your consolation, working in you through the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

And He responding to them, says, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? Bring him hither to me.