Or, do you despise the riches of his goodness, and his forbearance, and his long suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

What, then, if God, intending to show his wrath, and to make his power known, yet, in much long-suffering bore with the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness,

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love,

strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, in order to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness,

Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, a merciful disposition, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering:

We exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, earnestly care for the weak-minded, be of a long-suffering disposition toward all.

But for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all long-suffering, for an example to those who might afterward believe on him in order to life eternal.

But you have fully known my teaching, my course of life, my purpose, my faithfulness, my long-suffering, my love, my patience,

preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and teaching.

who formerly were disobedient, when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while an ark was preparing, in which few, that is, eight souls, were brought in safety through the water;

The Lord does not delay concerning his promise, as some men count delay, but he is long-suffering toward us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

and count the long-suffering of our Lord, salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, has written to you;