When you need Patience

Colossians 1:11-12 (New International Version, ©2011)
¹¹ being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, ¹² and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you^[a] to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.

Galatians 5:22 (New International Version, ©2011)

 ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 6:9 (New International Version, ©2011)

⁹ Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

James 1:2-4 (New International Version, ©2011)

Trials and Temptations

 ² Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,^[a]whenever you face trials of many kinds, ³ because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.⁴ Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Psalm 27:14 (New International Version, ©2011)

¹⁴ Wait for the LORD; 
   be strong and take heart 
   and wait for the LORD.

Psalm 37:34 (New International Version, ©2011)

 ³⁴ Hope in the LORD 
   and keep his way. 
He will exalt you to inherit the land; 
   when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.

Romans 5:3-5 (New International Version, ©2011)

³ Not only so, but we^[a] also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; ⁴perseverance, character; and character, hope. ⁵ And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.