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11 Bible Verses About Patience in Relationships

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  • Patience is the first thing Paul says about love in 1 Corinthians 13:4, and the same list says love “keeps no record of wrongs.”
  • Ephesians 4:2 and Colossians 3:12-13 both pair patience with bearing with one another, and Colossians adds forgiving “as the Lord forgave you.”
  • Proverbs 15:18 says the patient person calms a quarrel, and Proverbs 19:11 says wisdom yields patience and the glory of overlooking an offense.
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:14 tells a church to be patient with everyone, including the idle and the weak.
  • In Matthew 18, two debtors both plead “Be patient with me”; the servant shown mercy refuses it to his fellow servant.

The Bible treats patience with other people as part of love and as the way quarrels end. Paul lists it first in his description of love (1 Corinthians 13:4) and ties it to bearing with one another (Ephesians 4:2; Colossians 3:13), while Proverbs sets the patient person against the hot-tempered one who stirs up conflict (Proverbs 15:18; 16:32). The New Testament letters also name the people it is owed to: everyone in the church, including the idle and the weak…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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