Bible Verses About Divine Patience

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

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

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.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

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 let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

In your patience possess ye your souls.

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

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

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.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

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.

But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

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.

Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.

For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

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

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

Let them now that fear the Lord say, that his mercy endureth for ever.