Or despisest thou the riches of his kindness and patience and long-suffering, ignorant that this goodness of God is leading thee to repentance?

But what if God, willing to display his wrath, and to make known what is possible with him, hath borne with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for perdition:

Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride],

in purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love;

strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

But for this end obtained I mercy, that in me, the chief, Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to those who should after believe in him unto eternal life.

But thou hast fully known my doctrine, conduct, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience,

preach the word, be urgent, in season, out of season; reprove, enjoin, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

that ye be not slothful, but imitators of those who, by faith and long suffering, are inheriting the promises.

who in time of old were disobedient, when the long suffering of God in the days of Noe waited, while the ark was preparing, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were preserved through the water.

And account the long suffering of our Lord conducive to salvation; as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, hath written unto you;