Bible Verses About Patience: General references
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Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
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7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
8Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
9For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
8Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
In your patience possess ye your souls.
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
4And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
4For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
5Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
4But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
6By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,