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Bible Verses About Patience

Verses about waiting on God, endurance, and trusting His timing in every season.

In a world of instant gratification, patience feels countercultural — yet Scripture calls it a fruit of the Spirit and a mark of mature faith. These Bible verses on patience will help you in seasons of waiting: waiting for a breakthrough, a healing, a relationship, a calling. Patience is not passive resignation; it is active trust. James tells us that the testing of our faith produces patience, and patience produces something beautiful. God is never late. His timing is always perfect, even when it doesn't match ours.

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Psalm 27:14

More Verses for Patience

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

Romans 5:3-4

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

James 1:3

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

James 1:4

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Hebrews 10:36

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,

Hebrews 12:1

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

Romans 12:12

I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

Psalm 40:1

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

1 Peter 5:6

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

James 1:12

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

James 1:19-20

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Proverbs 14:29

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Galatians 6:9

In your patience possess ye your souls.

Luke 21:19

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Romans 15:4

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Psalm 37:1-2

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.

James 5:11

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

Titus 2:2

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

Psalm 25:5

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

2 Peter 1:5-6

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Proverbs 19:11

And patience, experience; and experience, hope.

Romans 5:4

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Hebrews 12:11

Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.

Colossians 1:11