Be Patient

              Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience - Colossians 3:12.                     

Be Patient in affliction

            Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer - Romans 12:12. Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing - James 1:2-4. 

Be Patient with others

            Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love - Ephesians 4:2. Be patient with everyone - 1 Thessalonians 5:14. And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all - 1 Thessalonians 5:14. With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love - Ephesians 4:2. Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly. A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. - Proverbs 14:29, 30. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil - 2 Timothy 2:24.

Be Patient

              He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city - Proverbs 16:32. A quick-tempered person does foolish things - Proverbs 14:17. Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit - Ecclesiastes 7:8. With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone - Proverbs 25:15.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control  - Galatians 5:22,23.  

                                                             

PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us to be patient in affliction, with others and in all circumstances. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.