Bible Verses About Patience: They who are in authority, should exercise

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.