Bible Verses About Patience for Becoming a Foster Parent

"Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."

"Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;"

"Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord."

"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."

"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."

"For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."

"Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit."

"Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;"

"He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly."

"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."

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction."

"A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. God setteth the solitary in families."

"Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow."

"And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me."

"Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy."