Bible Verses About Patience

Waiting is hard. These verses speak of patience with others, and of waiting on God’s good timing.

  1. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
  2. 2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
  3. Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
  4. Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
  5. But those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
  6. The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.
  7. Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
  8. 7Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains. 8You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
  9. But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.
  10. A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.
  11. 25The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. 26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
  12. with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,