Being Patient

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.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,

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. — read the full passage →

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

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.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; — read the full passage →

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God. — read the full passage →

Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.