What Does the Bible Say About Patience?

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Trials are the workshop where patience is forged into maturity.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Comparison robs us of patience — rest in God's timing, not your neighbor's.

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.

The harvest is coming — the danger is quitting just before it arrives.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Waiting on God is not losing time — it is gaining strength.

Therefore let's 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's run with perseverance the race that is set before us.

Life is a long race — patient endurance wins it.

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. You also be patient.

The farmer is a model of patience — sowing without seeing the harvest.

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

Patient waiting is rewarded — God turns toward those who wait.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

Quiet waiting is not resignation — it is confident hope.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Scripture was given to develop patience — and through it, hope.

By your endurance you will win your lives.

Patient endurance is the path to full life — shortcuts lead nowhere.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Patience with people is a sign of wisdom, not weakness.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Abraham's example — patience in God's timing obtained the impossible.

Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Endurance is the mark of authentic faith — it keeps going when all seems lost.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient toward us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

God's patience is not weakness — it is mercy toward the unsaved.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Waiting on God requires strength — one of the most active forms of faith.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Patience sees the long view — pride demands instant results.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy.

Patience is the first quality of love — it begins there.

But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.

Patience and hope are companions — neither exists without the other.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy.

Patience is not grim — it is empowered by God's glory and filled with joy.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Endurance is the bridge between obedience and receiving God's promise.