23 Bible Verses about Patience In Hard Times

for you surely know that what is genuine in your faith produces the patient mind that endures;

and endurance, tested character, and tested character, hope,

but you must let your endurance come to its perfect product, so that you may be fully developed and perfectly equipped, without any defects.

And not only that, but this too: let us continue exulting in our sufferings, for we know that suffering produces endurance,

By your endurance you will win your souls.

ever happy in hope, always patient in suffering, ever persistent in prayer,

You are showing patient endurance, and you have borne it for my sake, and have not grown weary.

Blessed is the person who endures trial, for when he stands the test, he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love Him.

It will furnish you an opportunity to testify.

But a hope that is seen is not real hope, for who hopes for what he actually sees? But if we hope for something we do not see, we keep on patiently waiting for it.

It is the duty of us who are strong to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.

For I consider all that we suffer in this present life is nothing to be compared with the glory which by-and-by is to be uncovered for us.

And yet not a single hair on your head will perish.

On the contrary, I am trying in everything to prove to people that I am a true servant of God: by my tremendous endurance in sorrows, distresses, difficulties;

You must consider it the purest joy, my brothers, when you are involved in various trials,

Dearly beloved, do not be astonished that a test by fire is coming upon you, as though something strange were happening to you,

Is any one of you suffering ill-treatment? He should keep on praying. Is anyone in a happy mood? He should keep on singing praise to God.

For what credit is it to bear it patiently, if you do wrong and are beaten for it? But if you do right and patiently suffer for it, it is pleasing in the sight of God.

Let your forbearing spirit be known to everybody. The Lord is near.

Yes, you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and they will put some of you to death,

From now on you must grow stronger through union with the Lord and through His mighty power.

Keep on praying in the Spirit, with every kind of prayer and entreaty, at every opportunity, be ever on the alert with perfect devotion and entreaty for all God's people,

Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can suffering or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?