Bible Verses About Patience

Patience in Scripture is more than gritting your teeth — it is steadiness rooted in trust. Farmers, exiles, and apostles were all taught to wait actively: keep planting, keep praying, keep obeying while the outcome is still unseen. These verses about patience meet you in seasons when answers lag behind anxiety, when healing or justice feels slow, and when your soul wants to sprint ahead of God. They invite you to wait with hope, not passivity — strength of heart, not numb resignation.

11 Verses About Patience

Patience
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. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.
James 5:7-8Read more →
Patience
But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
Romans 8:25Read more →
Patience
Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27:14Read more →
Patience
I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.
Psalm 40:1-2Read more →
Patience
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9Read more →
Patience
The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
Lamentations 3:25-26Read more →
Patience
For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.
Habakkuk 2:3Read more →
Patience
I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope. I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.
Psalm 130:5-6Read more →
Patience
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.
Psalm 37:7Read more →
Patience
The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.
Ecclesiastes 7:8Read more →
Patience
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12:11Read more →

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