²⁵ But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.

³ remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

¹² rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

³⁶ For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

¹¹ strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;

¹⁴ Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

⁵ I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

⁶ My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; More than watchmen for the morning.

⁷ Israel, hope in Yahweh, For with Yahweh there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.

¹⁹ By your endurance you will win your lives.

⁵ May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

¹² Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."

¹⁰ If anyone has captivity, he will go. If anyone is with the sword, he must be killed.{TR reads "If anyone leads into captivity, into captivity he goes. If anyone will kill with the sword, he must be killed with a sword." instead of "If anyone has captivity, he goes away. If anyone is with the sword, he must be killed."} Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

⁹ I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

⁷ Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

⁸ You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

⁹ Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

¹⁰ Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

¹¹ Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

⁴ Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

¹ Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

² looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

³ For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.

⁷ Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don't fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

⁸ Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads only to evildoing.

⁹ For evildoers shall be cut off, But those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

¹ > My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

⁵ My soul, wait in silence for God alone, For my expectation is from him.

⁶ He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.

⁹ It shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Yahweh; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

⁸ Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.

²⁵ Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

²⁶ It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

¹⁵ That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.

⁷ to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life;

²³ Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

¹² that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

¹⁵ Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

¹⁸ I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.