Bible Verses About Patience
This collection includes 30 passages about Patience. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
This collection is a starting point, not a count of every relevant passage in the Bible.
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Reading context: James addresses trials and the testing of faith, linking them with endurance. The paragraph does not instruct a reader to seek harm or pretend that pain is pleasant.
Scripture Passages
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Reading context: James addresses trials and the testing of faith, linking them with endurance. The paragraph does not instruct a reader to seek harm or pretend that pain is pleasant.
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.
Reading context: James uses a farmer, the prophets and Job while speaking about endurance and the coming of the Lord. The same section warns against grumbling at one another.
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Reading context: James addresses trials and the testing of faith, linking them with endurance. The paragraph does not instruct a reader to seek harm or pretend that pain is pleasant.
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Reading context: James uses a farmer, the prophets and Job while speaking about endurance and the coming of the Lord. The same section warns against grumbling at one another.
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
Reading context: James uses a farmer, the prophets and Job while speaking about endurance and the coming of the Lord. The same section warns against grumbling at one another.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Reading context: James uses a farmer, the prophets and Job while speaking about endurance and the coming of the Lord. The same section warns against grumbling at one another.
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.
Reading context: James uses a farmer, the prophets and Job while speaking about endurance and the coming of the Lord. The same section warns against grumbling at one another.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Reading context: Paul describes a progression from suffering through patience and experience toward hope. Keep the progression together; suffering itself is not a goal or a guarantee of an immediate outcome.
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Reading context: Paul describes a progression from suffering through patience and experience toward hope. Keep the progression together; suffering itself is not a goal or a guarantee of an immediate outcome.
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Reading context: Paul describes a progression from suffering through patience and experience toward hope. Keep the progression together; suffering itself is not a goal or a guarantee of an immediate outcome.
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Reading context: Paul distinguishes hope from what is already seen, in a passage about creation’s groaning and redemption. Patient waiting belongs to that larger hope.
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Reading context: Paul distinguishes hope from what is already seen, in a passage about creation’s groaning and redemption. Patient waiting belongs to that larger hope.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Reading context: Longsuffering appears among the fruit of the Spirit, beside love, gentleness and other qualities. Read the contrast with the preceding works of the flesh.
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Reading context: Longsuffering appears among the fruit of the Spirit, beside love, gentleness and other qualities. Read the contrast with the preceding works of the flesh.
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
Reading context: Paul asks the community to walk with humility, meekness, patience and love while keeping unity. This concerns how people treat one another.
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Reading context: Paul asks the community to walk with humility, meekness, patience and love while keeping unity. This concerns how people treat one another.
Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Reading context: Paul asks the community to walk with humility, meekness, patience and love while keeping unity. This concerns how people treat one another.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Reading context: Patience, kindness, bearing with others and forgiveness appear together in instructions for community life.
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Reading context: Patience, kindness, bearing with others and forgiveness appear together in instructions for community life.
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
Reading context: Paul distinguishes warning, comforting and supporting, then calls for patience toward everyone. Patience does not erase the different needs he names.
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
Reading context: The writer calls for continued confidence and endurance after describing the readers’ former hardships. This is not a promise that every personal request will be fulfilled.
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Reading context: The writer calls for continued confidence and endurance after describing the readers’ former hardships. This is not a promise that every personal request will be fulfilled.
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.
Reading context: The psalm joins waiting with restraint from anger and warns against fretting over those who prosper in wrongdoing. Read the contrast with trust and doing good.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Reading context: The psalm joins waiting with restraint from anger and warns against fretting over those who prosper in wrongdoing. Read the contrast with trust and doing good.
I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
Reading context: The speaker remembers waiting and being heard, using images of rescue and a new song. This is personal testimony, not a fixed waiting period for every reader.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Reading context: The speaker remembers waiting and being heard, using images of rescue and a new song. This is personal testimony, not a fixed waiting period for every reader.
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
Reading context: The speaker remembers waiting and being heard, using images of rescue and a new song. This is personal testimony, not a fixed waiting period for every reader.
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.
Reading context: The letter discusses the promised coming of the Lord and describes divine patience in relation to repentance. It does not set a date for a reader’s circumstances.
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.
Reading context: The letter discusses the promised coming of the Lord and describes divine patience in relation to repentance. It does not set a date for a reader’s circumstances.
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Patience can mean endurance through a trial, restraint toward another person, or waiting for what is hoped for. This collection keeps those tasks distinct. James uses the farmer, the prophets and Job in a discussion of patient endurance; Paul also describes patience as part of community conduct. These passages do not provide a timetable for another person’s life.
Read the different settings
A starting collection grouped by endurance, relationships and waiting in hope. Adjacent verses retain the argument or instruction; the selection is not every passage about patience and does not imply a personal timetable.
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Study Guide
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What does this collection help me read?
Distinguish endurance in hardship, patient conduct toward others, and waiting in hope. It contains 30 passages in KJV, selected as a starting point rather than an exhaustive topical count.
How were the passages selected?
A starting collection grouped by endurance, relationships and waiting in hope. Adjacent verses retain the argument or instruction; the selection is not every passage about patience and does not imply a personal timetable. Selection and reading notes are machine-assisted; independent human editorial review is pending.
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