Bible Verses About Long Suffering
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for long suffering, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,904 votes, led by 2 Peter 3:9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Long Suffering
2 Peter 3:9211 votes
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Romans 5:3-4202 votes
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Galatians 5:22176 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Ephesians 4:2143 votes
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Romans 8:28123 votes
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 2:4115 votes
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Exodus 34:686 votes
And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
James 4:786 votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Colossians 3:1278 votes
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Romans 8:1873 votes
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Hebrews 2:1073 votes
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Romans 9:2272 votes
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
1 Corinthians 13:459 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
James 1:2-458 votes
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
2 Peter 3:1-1857 votes
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
1 Peter 5:1050 votes
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Romans 8:28-2948 votes
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Galatians 5:22-2345 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Hebrews 4:1545 votes
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Job 1:1-2244 votes
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Matthew 25:4144 votes
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
1 Corinthians 2:942 votes
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Matthew 25:4641 votes
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Psalms 37:10-1140 votes
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
Psalms 86:1540 votes
But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
What does the Bible say about long suffering?
Readers most often cite 2 Peter 3:9 on the subject of long suffering. Across 3,904 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 5:3-4, Galatians 5:22, Ephesians 4:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.