42 Bible Verses about Being Patient

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, until it receives the early and latter rain.

Be ye also patient. Establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has approached.

rejoicing in hope, enduring tribulation, persevering in prayer,

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning of it. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

But because of this I obtained mercy, so that in me, the foremost, Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

For ye have need of perseverance, so that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait through patience.

And let perseverance have a perfect work, so that ye may be perfect and complete, falling short in nothing.

The Lord is not slack about his promise, as some regard slackness, but is patient toward us, not wanting any to perish, but all to go forward to repentance.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

In your perseverance ye gain your souls.

Wait for LORD. Be strong, and let thy heart take courage. Yea, wait thou for LORD.

and perseverance, character, and character, hope.

Here is the perseverance of the sanctified. Here are those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

For what kind of credit is it, if, sinning and being beaten, ye will endure? But if, doing good and suffering, ye will endure, this is graciousness with God.

Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up.

What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient?

with all humility and mildness, with longsuffering, forbearing each other in love.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Behold, we regard those who endured, blessed. Ye have heard of the fortitude of Job, and have seen the outcome of Lord, that he is very compassionate and merciful.

Take an example, my brothers, of evil-suffering and longsuffering, the prophets who spoke in the name of Lord.

And may the Lord direct your hearts for the love of God, and for the steadfastness of the Christ.

Allow me a little, and I will show thee. For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.

And a bondman of Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,

So his fellow bondman having fallen down at his feet, besought him, saying, Be patience toward me, and I will pay thee.

being strengthened in every ability, according to the dominion of his glory, for all perseverance and longsuffering with joy.

And consider the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation, just as also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given to him,

Rest in LORD, and wait patiently for him. Fret not thyself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.

And this way, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

By long-suffering a ruler is persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.

so that ye may not become lazy, but imitators of those who, through faith and longsuffering, inherit the promises.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

I know thy works, and thy love and faith and service and perseverance. And thy last works are more than the first.

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Because thou keep the word of my perseverance, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole inhabited world, to try those who dwell upon the earth.

Aged men are to be without wine, noble, serious minded, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance.

But the man who is weak in the faith, do not receive for arguments of opinions.

Now may the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to think the same way among each other, in accord with Christ Jesus,

to those who indeed seek by perseverance of good work, glory and esteem and immortality--eternal life--

in purity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in Holy Spirit, in non-hypocritical love,

He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.