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Bible Verses About Patience
Patience is one of the hardest virtues to practice, yet one of the most rewarding. The Bible teaches us that waiting on God develops our character and deepens our faith.
“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.”
“Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.”
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
“Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way.”
“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”
“For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”
“He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.”
“Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.”
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
“The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.”
“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”
“A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.”
“And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.”
“I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.”
“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.”