Patience (2/2)

The Lord is compassionate and merciful,
slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.
Psalm 103:8 grace love patience
In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.
2 Peter 1:5-7 faith goodness self-control

But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Matthew 24:13 patience salvation end times
But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day.
2 Peter 3:8 God second coming patience
So you, too, must keep watch! For you don’t know what day your Lord is coming.
Matthew 24:42 second coming patience end times
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.
Hebrews 12:1 sin life overcoming
I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take away your crown.
Revelation 3:11 second coming reward patience
“Don’t tear your clothing in your grief,
but tear your hearts instead.”
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is merciful and compassionate,
slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.
He is eager to relent and not punish.
Joel 2:13 heart grace love
The hopes of the godly result in happiness,
but the expectations of the wicked come to nothing.
Proverbs 10:28 righteousness hope patience
The Lord is slow to get angry, but his power is great,
and he never lets the guilty go unpunished.
He displays his power in the whirlwind and the storm.
The billowing clouds are the dust beneath his feet.
Nahum 1:3 patience strength punishment