Bible verses about patience
For seasons of waiting: verses about trusting God's timing when answers are slow.
Rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer…
Romans 12:12
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, Knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
James 1:2-4
Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.
Psalm 27:14
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
Galatians 6:9
But those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance…
Colossians 3:12
The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Lamentations 3:25-26
But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
Romans 8:25
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
Psalm 37:7