'Patient' in the Bible
What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,
But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
"I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.