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Patience is love that waits — for God's timing and with other people.
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Romans 12:12 · KJVAnd let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Galatians 6:9 · KJVMy brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
James 1:2–4 · KJVWith all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Ephesians 4:2 · KJVRest 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.
Psalm 37:7 · KJVBetter is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 · KJVPut on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Colossians 3:12 · KJVBut if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Romans 8:25 · KJVBe 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. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
James 5:7–8 · KJVHe that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Proverbs 14:29 · KJVBut 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.
Isaiah 40:31 · KJVCharity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians 13:4 · KJVBut the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Galatians 5:22–23 · KJVEvery verse is quoted from the King James Version. Tap a reference to read it in context and compare it in other free translations.