Patience — Page 2
Verses 11–20 of 53
Romans 15:4 KJV
“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”
Context & Meaning
Paul explains why the Old Testament was recorded for New Testament believers, the patience-building and comfort embedded in Scripture's accounts of God's faithfulness produces hope for today's waiting believer.
Psalm 40:1 KJV
“I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.”
Context & Meaning
David testifies to the outcome of patient waiting: God inclined, bent down, gave attention, to him and heard his cry. Patient waiting is not ignored; it is rewarded with divine attentiveness.
Revelation 14:12 KJV
“Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
Context & Meaning
John describes the endurance of the end-times saints as the combination of obedience and faith, patient endurance is not passivity but active faithfulness maintained through extreme pressure.
Luke 21:19 KJV
“In your patience possess ye your souls.”
Context & Meaning
Jesus links patience with possessing, owning, holding onto, one's own soul. Without patient endurance, a person loses themselves; with it, they hold their identity, integrity, and faith intact through anything.
Colossians 1:11 KJV
“Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.”
Context & Meaning
Paul prays for patience that is supernaturally resourced by God's own glorious power, and paired with joyfulness, showing that biblical patience is not grim endurance but steadfast joy.
James 5:7 KJV
“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.”
James 5:8 KJV
“Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”
James 5:9 KJV
“Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.”
James 5:10 KJV
“Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.”
James 5:11 KJV
“Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.”