Bible verses about "patient" | Worsley

⁷ Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

¹ It is certain, if any one is desirous of the episcopal office, he desireth a good work. ² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, sober, prudent, grave, ³ hospitable, able to teach, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain, moderate, not quarrelsome, ⁴ not covetous, governing his own family well, having his children in subjection with all gravity; ⁵ (for if any one know not how to govern his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) ⁶ not one newly converted, least being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil. ⁷ He ought also to have an honorable testimony from those that are without, least he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. ⁸ The deacons should likewise be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of base gain, ⁹ holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. ¹⁰ (And let these also first be proved, then let them take the office of deacons, if they be found blameless.) ¹¹ And their wives likewise grave, not slanderers, sober, and faithful in all things. ¹² Let the deacons too be husbands of one wife only, governing their children and their own houses well. ¹³ For they, that discharge the office of a deacon well, gain to themselves a good degree of honor, and much freedom in promoting the faith that is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ These things I write unto thee, hoping to come to thee shortly. ¹⁵ But if I should be retarded, that thou mayst know how thou oughtest to behave in the house of God, the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth. ¹⁶ And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, and received up into glory.

¹² Rejoicing in hope, patient under affliction, persevering in prayer,

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, ²³ gentleness, goodness, fidelity, meekness, temperance: against such things there is no law.