Bible Verses About Patience for Overcoming Bitterness

"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."

"Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled."

"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you... And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another."

"Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye."

"The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy."

"For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you."