remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;
Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.
Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
He said, "Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!'
"So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will repay you!'
By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.
Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.
What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:
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In Mark 12:30 Jesus said;
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
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The First Book of Adam and Eve. Books 1 begins immediately after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. We learn about the fall but also of the promise to save Adam and his decendents. The story depicts mans struggle against evil, the devil and sin.
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The Infancy of Jesus Christ (Infancy Gospel of Thomas) relates the life of Jesus from the ages of five to twelve. It is believed that the document was transcribed from oral traditions some time prior to the second century. The ancient writing is possibly Gnostic and many early church leaders considered it heretical.
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