Bible verses · Berean Standard Bible

Bible Verses for Patience

Read passages about steadfastness in trials, patient hope, and the Spirit's fruit.

Each selection is one verse. Open the full chapter to read who is speaking and what surrounds it.

James 1:4

Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

In context: James speaks of perseverance reaching maturity after trials test faith.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

In context: Paul lists patience among the fruit of the Spirit in a discussion of life by the Spirit.

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.

In context: Hope, endurance in trouble, and prayer appear together in Paul's practical counsel.

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.

In context: The psalm counsels patient trust rather than envy of those who seem to prosper unjustly.