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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