35+ Bible Verses About Patience And Self Control

Bible Verses About Patience - According to Webster's dictionary the patience is defined as the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.

Bible verses about patience

What you know as patience is just the toleration of time you are tolerating something. Well, patience is not about adjustment, toleration,  patience is attention, patience is timelessness, patience is not when you are saying that I can still be patient for the next three hours. 

Patience is when you do not even know when those three hours passed away. So, we can define patience is timelessness. 

But what does the Bible says about patience? Bible teaches us that we should always have hope in God's words that He is going to open every good door for us. God says trust me and wait for me patiently because He is the only one that will provide you all your needs.

Bible Verses About Patience 

Here are the few scriptures that I found really helpful and I hope that these scriptures will help you too. As you read this may God bless your heart and fills you up with His Love and give you a spirit of patience in your life

✝ Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; it is not arrogant.

~Corinthians 13:4

✝ Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
~Philippians 4:6

Bible verses about patience

✝ The end of something is better than its beginning. Patience is better than pride.
~Ecclesiastes 7:8

✝ But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. 
~Romans 8:25

✝ Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices! Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land. 
~Psalm 37:7-9

✝ The Lord is good to everyone who trusts in him, So it is best for us to wait in patience—to wait for him to save us— And it is best to learn this patience in our youth.

~Lamentations 3:25-27

Bible verses about patience

✝ Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices. 

~Psalm 37:7

✝ But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life. 

~1 Timothy 1:16

Bible Verses About Patience In Relationships

Having patience these days in relationships it's quite difficult. People try to manage but due to lack of patience their relationships getting failed and this has become the most major problem in relationships But every problem has a solution..right? 

You can take an expert's advice or join any online program that talks about maintaining relationships. But sometimes these things don't work at all and consequently, people are going through broken relationships.

Well, the solution is always there beside you, all you have to take the guidance on what God says and teach us about patience in relationships.

 Being a disciple of Christ (or whatever background you belong to) you should be patient and walk through His teachings. Bible teaches us a lot about patience and love. Let's read a few scriptures from the Bible that says about patience in relationships.

Bible verses about patience

✝ For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. 

~Hebrews 10:36

✝ Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. 
~Colossians 3:14

✝ Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 
~Ephesians 4:2

✝ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 
~John 15:13

✝ A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid anyone who talks too much. 
~Proverbs 20:19

✝ But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop. 
~Luke 8:15

Bible verses about patience

✝ Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice. 

~Proverbs 27:9

✝ Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses. 
~Proverbs 27:6

✝ Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. 
~Romans 12:10

Bible Verses About Patience In Hard Times

Do you also lack in patience, do you need to leave how to be patient. I know that life is always full of ups and downs. Sometimes we lose our temper and make things worse. What the Bible says about patience in hard times?

All you can do is wait and believe in God, have hope that His timings are perfect, He is the only one who cares and loves you and the hard time that you are going through will also fade away.

 If you meditate in His words you will find a strength that will help you in your hard times to make to stronger and wait in Patience, believing that God is going to help you and surely He will provide you the way and then lighten your way to get through your hard times.

Bible verses about patience

✝ Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it until it receives the early and the late rains. 

~James 5:7

✝ But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. 
~Romans 8:25

✝ The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run into it and are safe. 
~Proverbs 18:10

✝ The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. 
~Psalm 9:9-10

✝ Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. 
~2 Corinthians 4:1

✝ God “will repay each person according to what they have done.” To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, he will give eternal life. 
~Romans 2:6-7

Bible verses about patience

✝ You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. 

~Psalm 32:7-8

✝ Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. 
~Deuteronomy 31:6

✝ Let your hope keep you joyful, be patient in your troubles, and pray at all times. 
~Romans 12:12

Bible Verses About Patience And Self-Control

The modern world we are living in is full of temptations and evil where we tend to lose our self-control and fall for a million shits. But on second thought there is always a way to get in and get out.

And I personally believe in that walking with God since I was 24.  I have learned so many things that have changed my life completely and it is all because of having patience and self-control over your life. And all these things are only possible when I start believing and following His teachings.

God has always been good for everyone and His love never changes. If you seek Him with all your true heart ask anything that will be given to you.  Here, I want to share some of my favorite Bible verses about self-control that helped me always and I hope this will help you too and to understand how much God loves us.

Bible verses about patience

✝ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law. 

~Galatians 5:22-23

✝ Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 
~1 Peter 1:13

Bible verses about patience

✝ Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. 

~Titus 1:8

✝ Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 
~1 Corinthians 7:5

✝ For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love
.~2 Peter 1:5-7

✝ Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing, and perfect will.

~Romans 12:2

Bible verses about patience

✝ Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city. 

~Proverbs 16:32

✝ For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age. 
~Titus 2:11-12

✝ So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. 

~1 Thessalonians 5:6

Bible verses about patience

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