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Being Patient
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 133 helpful votes
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 118 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
Matthew 7:7 ESV / 92 helpful votes
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Psalm 27:14 ESV / 89 helpful votes
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 86 helpful votes
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
1 John 4:18 ESV / 67 helpful votes
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
John 16:33 ESV / 59 helpful votes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Romans 12:2 ESV / 45 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 40 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Romans 10:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 22 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …
Romans 12:12 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Romans 8:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
John 14:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
Psalm 37:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Romans 8:29 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
John 11:25-26 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Matthew 24:30 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Galatians 6:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.
James 5:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes
You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
John 3:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 19:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Luke 23:43 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
Matthew 25:41 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Matthew 22:37 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
James 5:7-8 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
James 1:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Romans 13:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
John 14:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ …
Revelation 20:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
1 John 2:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, …
Luke 1:1-80 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught. In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. …
Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. …
Matthew 6:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. …
Hebrews 6:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
So that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1 Thessalonians 5:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
Hebrews 10:36 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
1 Thessalonians 5:13-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.
Philippians 4:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Psalm 40:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.
1 Timothy 1:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, …
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
John 3:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 8:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.
Matthew 3:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Habakkuk 2:2-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
Isaiah 30:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Psalm 86:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
Exodus 14:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Jude 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
2 Peter 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
James 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.
James 1:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. …
Colossians 1:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy,
Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Romans 5:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
Romans 5:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
Romans 2:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
Matthew 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Hosea 13:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
Isaiah 60:1-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you. And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Lift up your eyes all around, and see; they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried on the hip. Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you. …
Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Proverbs 25:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes
With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.
Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Psalm 37:7-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices! Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.
Revelation 14:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
2 Peter 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
James 5:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
James 1:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
James 1:2-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 6:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
Ephesians 4:1-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Romans 15:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
Romans 15:4-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
Romans 8:24-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
John 8:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Matthew 24:42 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
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