Bible verses about "long suffering" | DouayRheims

⁶ And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true,

¹ There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil. ² And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. ³ And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east. ⁴ And his sons went, and made a feast by houses, every one in his day. And sending, they called their three sisters, to eat and drink with them. ⁵ And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days. ⁶ Now on a certain day, when the sons of God came to stand before the Lord, Satan also was present among them. ⁷ And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou? And he answered and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it. ⁸ And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and fearing God, and avoiding evil? ⁹ And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain? ¹⁰ Hast thou not made a fence for him, and his house, and all his substance round about, blessed the works of his hands, and his possession hath increased on the earth? ¹¹ But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he bless thee not to thy face. ¹² Then the Lord said to Satan: Behold, all that he hath is in thy hand: only put not forth thy hand upon his person. And Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord. ¹³ Now upon a certain day, when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine, in the house of their eldest brother, ¹⁴ There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them, ¹⁵ And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁶ And while he was yet speaking, another came, and said: The fire of God fell from heaven, and striking the sheep and the servants, hath consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁷ And while he also was yet speaking, there came another, and said: The Chaldeans made three troops, and have fallen upon the camels, and taken them; moreover, they have slain the servants with the sword: and I alone have escaped to tell thee. ¹⁸ He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother, ¹⁹ A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children, and they are dead: and I alone have escaped to tell thee. ²⁰ Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his head, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, ²¹ And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord. ²² In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any foolish thing against God.

⁴¹ Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels.

²² What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,

¹² Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:

²⁸ And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. ²⁹ For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son: that he might be the Firstborn amongst many brethren.

¹⁰ For it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things, who had brought many children into glory, to perfect the author of their salvation, by his passion.

¹ Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which, I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind: ² That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophet and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Saviour. ³ Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts, ⁴ Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? For since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. ⁵ For this they are wilfully ignorant of: That the heavens were before, and the earth out of water and through water, consisting by the word of God: ⁶ Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. ⁷ But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly men. ⁸ But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance, ¹⁰ But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be melted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up. ¹¹ Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness? ¹² Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with the burning heat? ¹³ But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth. ¹⁴ Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace. ¹⁵ And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation: as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you: ¹⁶ As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. ¹⁷ You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness. ¹⁸ But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity, Amen.

⁴ Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

⁷ Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil: and he will fly from you.

² With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity.

²⁸ And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.

³ And not only so: but we glory also in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; ⁴ And patience trial; and trial hope;

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,

⁹ The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance,