33 Bible Verses about Being Patient

Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains.

So you also must be patient. Stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand!

Rejoice in hope; be patient under affliction; continue stedfast in prayer.

Yet for this very cause I obtained mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might display all his boundless patience as an illustration for those who should later believe in him, and so gain life eternal.

For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

Who hopes for what he clearly sees? But if we hope for something that we do not see, we then patiently wait for it.

But let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, not lacking in anything.

The Lord does not loiter over his promise, as some men esteem loitering; but he is longsuffering toward you, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should pass on to repentance.

because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance.

"In your patience you shall purchase your souls.

and fortitude character, and character, hope??5 a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

Here is the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

For what credit is it if, when you are struck for a fault, you take it patiently? But if when you are doing well and suffer for it, you always take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,

With all humility and gentleness and long-suffering forbear with one another in love;

Remember we count those that were stedfast happy. You have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen how the Lord is full of tenderness.

Take, my brothers, for an example the suffering and the patience of the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

May the Lord incline your hearts to the love of God and to the stedfastness of Christ.

The Lord's slave must not quarrel, but must be kind to all men; a skilful teacher, patient of wrong.

"Then his fellow slave fell at his feet, and besought him, saying, "'Be patient with me, and I will pay you.'

that you may be strengthened in every kind of strength by the might of his glory for every kind of patience and fortitude with good cheer.

Regard our Lord's longsuffering as salvation; even as our dear brother Paul also wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him.

And so by patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the promise.

Then do not become slack, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father.

I know your works and your love and faith and service and endurance; I know that your last works are more than the first.

It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring.

Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from that hour of trial which is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to test those who dwell on the earth.

that the older men be self-controlled, serious and sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of deciding doubtful points.

Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be in full sympathy with one another, in accordance with the example of Jesus Christ;

eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

with purity, understanding, patience, and kindness; by the Holy Spirit, by love sincere,