Bible Verses About Patience
Patience is a fruit of the Spirit that grows through testing. These verses encourage steadfast endurance and trust in God's timing.
15 Verses — King James Version
“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”
“Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”
“But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
“Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;”
“Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.”
“The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.”
“It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.”
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”
“He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.”
“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”
“Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;”
“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”
“For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”
“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
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