Bible verses about patience
The most extravagant description of God’s power in any of Paul’s letters is spent, in the end, on patience. These passages are set out with a sentence on each — including the one that says what God is waiting for.
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. — James 5:7 · WEB
The instruction to the defrauded is patience, and the model chosen is a man who cannot make anything happen faster.
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance. — 2 Peter 3:9 · WEB
The delay is given a motive, and the motive is that God does not want anyone lost.
strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy, — Colossians 1:11 · WEB
The most extravagant description of divine power in the letter is spent on endurance and patience — with joy.
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. — Hebrews 10:36 · WEB
The readers' own past is produced as evidence against their present, and what they need is named in one word.
Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen. — Psalm 37:7 · WEB
An old man's answer to the oldest complaint, and its argument is entirely about time.
I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry. — Psalm 40:1 · WEB
A rescue already accomplished, a statement that sacrifice was never what God wanted, and then trouble again.
But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience. — Romans 8:25 · WEB
Believers groan with the creation, the awaited adoption is defined as the body's redemption, and hope's grammar requires the unseen.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — Galatians 5:22 · WEB
The counterpart to fifteen works is one fruit with nine qualities, and the closing line observes that no law stands against any of them.
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. — James 1:3 · WEB
The joy is commanded as a calculation rather than a feeling, and the reason given is a chain that ends in wholeness.
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. — Ecclesiastes 7:8 · WEB
The crooked thing that could not be straightened in chapter 1 is here said to have been made crooked, and the alternation of good days and bad is given a purpose.
but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint. — Isaiah 40:31 · WEB
God is measured against the universe and the idol-makers in turn, and the answer to a complaint about being overlooked is the star count.
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However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life. — 1 Timothy 1:16 · WEB
The writer interrupts his own instructions to state his case, and the tense he uses of himself is the present.
We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all. — 1 Thessalonians 5:14 · WEB
Three groups needing three different responses — and the skill is telling which is which.
rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer, — Romans 12:12 · WEB
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly. — Proverbs 14:29 · WEB
“By your endurance you will win your lives. — Luke 21:19 · WEB