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For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you warned them through your prophets. Yet they paid no attention, so you gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
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“What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?
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Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.
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Psalm 40
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry.
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Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.
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A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.
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Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.
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A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.
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Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
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The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.
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Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also?
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I waited patiently till dawn, but like a lion he broke all my bones; day and night you made an end of me.
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I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us.
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“At this the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’
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“His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.’
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and especially so because you are well acquainted with all the Jewish customs and controversies. Therefore, I beg you to listen to me patiently.
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Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?
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But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
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What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?
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Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
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If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.
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in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;
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Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
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being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,
