Bible Verses About Patience
Scriptures on enduring seasons of waiting.
Enduring seasons of waiting is rarely easy, yet it is often the very soil where our faith takes its deepest root. Steadfast endurance means leaning into God’s perfect timing and trusting that He is working behind the scenes. Even when you cannot see visible progress, His hope remains a steady anchor for your soul. By resting in His character, you can find the quiet strength to wait with graceful expectation.
Key Passages
"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."
"For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."
"Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah."
"By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God."
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"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;"
"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."
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,"
"And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;"
"And patience, experience; and experience, hope:"
"Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;"
"So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:"
"In your patience possess ye your souls."
"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
"But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it."
"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."
"It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD."
"Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;"
"And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise."
"But 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."
"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."
"With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;"
"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,"
"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God."
"A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife."
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."
"Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit."
"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."
"That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises."
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