Bible verses about patience
Waiting on God and bearing with others — passages on patience and perseverance.
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Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.
rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,
2Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, 3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Old Testament
but those who wait for the LORD 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.
25The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. 26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Psalms & Wisdom
Rest in the LORD, 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.
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
New Testament
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
7Be 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. 8You 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 he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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