Bible Verses About Patience for Preparing for Death

"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."

"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself."

"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

"We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me."

"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"