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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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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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But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
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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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Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
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And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone.
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And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised.
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Patience in Suffering
Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.
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You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.
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to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water,
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The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
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John’s Vision of Christ
I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
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Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.
