Patience

 "Patience is equated with suffering."

2 Thessalonians 3:5“And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.”

  People often say "Don't pray for Patience unless you are ready to be tested!"James 1:3 | Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. Patience is something that is required of us as followers of Christ.  If you are impatient you are not displaying the characteristics of Christ. Luke 21:19 In your patience possess ye your souls.   Romans 5:³And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; ⁴And patience, experience; and experience, hope: ⁵And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

 Definition of patient

1 :bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint

2 :manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain

3 :not hasty or impetuous

                                                                           4 :steadfast despite opposition, difficulty, or adversity

                                                                                         5 a :able or willing to bear —used with of

                                                                                          b :susceptible, admitting

Synonyms

forbearing, long-suffering, stoic (or stoical), tolerant, uncomplaining  

Hebrews 6:15 

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 

 Psalms 27:14 - Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Ecclesiastes 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

James 5:7  Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

James 5:8  Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

1 Peter 2:20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. 

Hebrews 6:12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.