rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
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;
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
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.
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.
Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
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 →
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.
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God. — read the full passage →
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →
that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.
But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
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?
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.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →
I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
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.
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;
“By your endurance you will win your lives.
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
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;
Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
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 →
Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;
Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,
so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
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.
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. — read the full passage →
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
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.
that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:
May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. — read the full passage →
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? — read the full passage →
Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure. — read the full passage →
If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
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 →
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →
“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
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