Patience
virtueThe capacity to endure difficulty, wait on God, and bear with others without giving in to frustration or despair.
Not just a list of verses — a map of how ideas in Scripture connect and lead to each other.
Follow the flow
Patience connects to different paths in Scripture:
Patience leads to Sanctification and Holiness.
Reading Path
Follow this theme through Scripture — one verse per step, in theological order.
“And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;”Romans 5:3 →
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.”Proverbs 9:10 →
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”2 Corinthians 3:18 →
Relationships
Anchor Scriptures 20 verses
“To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.”
Read in context →“Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.”
Read in context →“The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”
Read in context →“A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.”
Read in context →“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,”
Read in context →“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”
Read in context →“And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;”
Read in context →“For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”
Read in context →“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.”
Read in context →“For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.”
Read in context →“And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,”
Read in context →“Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.”
Read in context →“Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;”
Read in context →“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”
Read in context →“Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;”
Read in context →“And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;”
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