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Patience

Developing endurance and self-control

Proverbs 1:8

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching:

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Proverbs 3:1

My son, do not forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

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Proverbs 3:21

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

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Proverbs 4:4

He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

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Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

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Proverbs 7:1

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

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Ecclesiastes 7:8

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

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Joel 2:13

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

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Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord, and said, "Please, Lord, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

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Nahum 1:3

The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. The Lord has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

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Matthew 5:9

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

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Matthew 6:12

And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

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Matthew 6:14

"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

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Matthew 7:1

"Do not judge, so that you won't be judged.

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Matthew 7:24

"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, will be compared to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

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Matthew 8:10

And when Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, "Truly I tell you, I have not found so great a faith with anyone in Israel.

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Matthew 9:2

And behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven."

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Matthew 9:11

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

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Matthew 9:34

But the Pharisees said, "By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons."

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Mark 2:5

Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven you."

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Mark 3:1

He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered.

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Mark 3:22

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons."

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Mark 3:30

-because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."

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Mark 4:20

But those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."

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Mark 5:10

And he begged him much that he would not send them away out of the region.

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Mark 7:1

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

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Mark 9:16

He asked them, "What are you asking them?"

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Luke 5:17

It happened on one of those days, that he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the Law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal.

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Luke 5:20

Seeing their faith, he said to him, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."

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Luke 5:30

The Pharisees and their scribes murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"

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Luke 6:6

It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was withered.

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Luke 6:37

Do not judge, and you won't be judged. Do not condemn, and you won't be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

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Luke 7:37

Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.

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Luke 7:42

When they could not pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"

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Luke 7:44

Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hair.

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Luke 7:47

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."

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Luke 7:49

Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"

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Luke 8:15

That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.

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John 3:21

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."

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John 5:3

In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed [waiting for the moving of the water;

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John 7:38

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."

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Acts 9:31

So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

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Galatians 5:22

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

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Ephesians 6:9

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

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Colossians 3:13

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as the Lord forgave you, so you also do.

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Hebrews 6:15

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

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James 1:4

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

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James 5:7

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

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James 5:8

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.

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2 Peter 3:15

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;

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Revelation 3:10

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

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