20 Bible Verses About Patience (KJV)
Patience in Scripture is not passive waiting but endurance with a direction — "let patience have her perfect work." These twenty verses cover waiting on God, bearing with people, and the harvest promised to those who faint not.
“Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”James 1:3 (KJV)
“But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”James 1:4 (KJV)
“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.”James 5:7 (KJV)
“Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”James 5:8 (KJV)
“Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;”Romans 12:12 (KJV)
“And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;”Romans 5:3 (KJV)
“And patience, experience; and experience, hope:”Romans 5:4 (KJV)
“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”Romans 8:25 (KJV)
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”Galatians 6:9 (KJV)
“Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.”Psalms 27:14 (KJV)
“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.”Psalms 37:7 (KJV)
“[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.”Psalms 40:1 (KJV)
“Better 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 (KJV)
“For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”Hebrews 10:36 (KJV)
“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.”2 Peter 3:9 (KJV)
“He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.”Proverbs 14:29 (KJV)
“A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.”Proverbs 15:18 (KJV)
“It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.”Lamentations 3:26 (KJV)
“In your patience possess ye your souls.”Luke 21:19 (KJV)
“Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;”Colossians 1:11 (KJV)
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