Bible Verses About Patience

The Bible treats patience as both waiting on God and being slow to anger with other people. James 1:2–4 says the testing of faith produces endurance, so that you may be perfect and complete; Galatians 5:22–23 lists patience among the fruit of the Spirit; and 1 Corinthians 13:4 begins its description of love with Love is patient.

Verses

James 1:2–4. 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Galatians 5:22–23. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

1 Corinthians 13:4. Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Romans 12:12. rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,

James 5:7–8. 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain. 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Psalm 27:14. Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Psalm 37:7. Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Isaiah 40:31. but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Colossians 3:12. Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Ecclesiastes 7:8. Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Proverbs 14:29. He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Proverbs 16:32. One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Romans 8:25. But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Hebrews 10:36. For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

2 Peter 3:9. The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Lamentations 3:25–26. 25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. 26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

Ephesians 4:2. with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,