Bible Verses about “forbearance”

“¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”

“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”

“Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”

“Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;”

“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”

“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”

“¶ Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.”

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.”

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

“And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.”

“But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”

“And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”

“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.”

“¶ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”

“Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

“¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”

“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

“Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.”

“¶ With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;”

“And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world.”

“And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”

“But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,”

“¶ Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.”

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

“For there is no respect of persons with God.”

“To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:”

“Who will render to every man according to his deeds:”

“And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?”

“Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”

“Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord [is] at hand.”

“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

“But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.”

“Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)”

“For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:”

“Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?”

“But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;”

“In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.”

“For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither [is that] circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:”

“Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;”

“But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:”

“(For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.”

“But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.”

“For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.”

“Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?”

“Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?”

“Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?”