The best Bible verses for patience (NASB) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for patience (NASB), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord."James 5:10
"As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord."James 5:10
"A man's discretion makes him slow to anger, And it is his glory to overlook a transgression."Proverbs 19:11
"Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?"Romans 2:4
"What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?"Romans 9:22
"Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life."1 Timothy 1:16
"who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through [the] water."1 Peter 3:20
"We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone."1 Thessalonians 5:14
"But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer;"2 Corinthians 1:6
"The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance."2 Peter 3:9
"I heard and my inward parts trembled, At the sound my lips quivered. Decay enters my bones, And in my place I tremble. Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress, For the people to arise [who] will invade us."Habakkuk 3:16
"'I composed [my soul] until morning. Like a lion-- so He breaks all my bones, From day until night You make an end of me."Isaiah 38:13
"Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains."James 5:7
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for patience (NASB) are James 5:10, Proverbs 19:11, Proverbs 25:15. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to patience (NASB) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for patience (NASB), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.