Living and character
What does the Bible say about patience?
Patience is listed as fruit of the Spirit, grown slowly through waiting, difficulty and love for people who are hard to bear with.
What Scripture says
James 1:2-4
“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
Galatians 5:22-23
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
Romans 12:12
“rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,”
Ecclesiastes 7:8
“Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”
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