Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,