What the Bible Says About Patience
Patience isn't natural. It's grown.
Scripture treats patience as a fruit — something that grows over time, often through trial. These verses show why God values it and how He produces it in us.
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✨ Ask the Bible →Patience in Scripture (KJV)
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Count it all joy when you fall into trials — because trying produces patience, and patience produces maturity.
Read in context →Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing instant in prayer. A complete posture for hard seasons.
Read in context →And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Be not weary in well doing — in due season we shall reap if we faint not.
Read in context →Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Put on bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering.
Read in context →For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Read in context →But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Read in context →Read these passages in full with AI explanations, cross-references, and 5 translations.
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