Bible Verses About Patience

The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

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.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

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.

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

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.

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

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.

Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.