And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.

‘The Lord is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving wickedness and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting (avenging) the wickedness and guilt of the fathers on the children, to the third and fourth generations [that is, calling the children to account for the sins of their fathers].’

yea, they refuse to hearken, and have not remembered Thy wonders that Thou hast done with them, and harden their neck and appoint a head, to turn back to their service, in their rebellion; and Thou art a God of pardons, gracious, and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and hast not forsaken them.

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious; long-suffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.

The LORD is gracious and merciful, long-suffering and of great goodness.

By long-suffering is a ruler persuaded, And a soft tongue breaketh a bone.

Jehovah, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; in thy long-suffering take me not away: know that for thy sake I bear reproach.

“Blessed [inwardly peaceful, spiritually secure, worthy of respect] are the gentle [the kind-hearted, the sweet-spirited, the self-controlled], for they will inherit the earth.

And shall not God avenge His own elect who cry day and night to Him, though He has been long-suffering over them?

or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?

And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

in pureness, in knowledge, in long suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity,

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love;

in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

And we exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, comfort the dispirited, assist the sick, be of long suffering towards all men.

But for this reason mercy was shewn me, that in me, the first, Jesus Christ might display the whole long-suffering, for a delineation of those about to believe on him to life eternal.

And thou -- thou hast followed after my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance,

preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

that ye may not become slothful, but imitators of those who, through faith and long-suffering, inherit the promises.

You have the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord, my brothers, as an example of patience and long-suffering.

who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul -- according to the wisdom given to him -- did write to you,

O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? How long shall I complain unto thee, suffering wrong, and thou wilt not help?

So am I allotted months of futility and suffering,
And [long] nights of trouble and misery are appointed to me.

When for a long time they had taken but little food, Paul, standing up among them, said, "Sirs, you ought to have listened to me and not have sailed from Crete. You would then have escaped this suffering and loss.

Turn back toward us, O Lord! How long must this suffering last? Have pity on your servants!