1. 2 What is long-suffering?

2. Long-Suffering Helps Us to Endure

3. Charity is long-suffering, merciful, and kind.

4. How is kindness related to long-suffering and goodness?

5. Being long-suffering does not mean condoning wrong, however.

6. Paul prayed that Christians “be long-suffering with joy”

7. Yes, we can take it by being long-suffering.

8. How is it possible to be long-suffering with joy?

9. • How does long-suffering help families, Christian communities, and elders?

10. 7 What did our long-suffering paragon of good grace do?

11. These are persuasion, long-suffering, gentleness, meekness, and love unfeigned.2

12. His provision of mercy, long-suffering, and forgiveness has been endless.

13. The Bible says: “Love is long-suffering.” —1 Corinthians 13:4.

14. His love overflows with grace, patience, long-suffering, mercy, and forgiveness.

15. To be long-suffering does not simply mean to suffer long.

16. And who is foremost among those slow to anger, displaying long-suffering?

17. 22 I think Tessa should plump for Malcolm, her long-suffering admirer.

18. 2 The Greek word translated “long-suffering” literally means “longness of spirit.”

19. 22 His long-suffering wife had to put up with his numerous affairs.

20. Why does Paul list long-suffering first among the positive aspects of love?

21. Proud persons are impatient, quick to express rage, far different from long-suffering.

22. Any who responded also became recipients of Jehovah’s undeserved kindness and long-suffering.

23. * We are gentle and meek and long-suffering (see D&C 121:41).

24. Learn to be kind, patient, long-suffering, and charitable (see Moroni 7:45–48).

25. Finally, she learned to love herself more, being more kind, gentle, and long-suffering.

26. Who of us would not like to abound in long-suffering, kindness, and goodness?

27. 4. (a) How is the idea of long-suffering expressed in the Hebrew Scriptures?

28. • Why do parents need to be long-suffering but firm in helping a prodigal child?

29. This manifests itself in “love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control.”

30. At times, they even “reprove, reprimand, exhort, with all long-suffering and art of teaching.”

31. True love “is long-suffering and kind . . . [and] does not look for its own interests . . .

32. 3 Had Paul always been a long-suffering, considerate person, fit for the assignment he received?

33. Both long-suffering and kindness are fruits of God’s spirit.—Romans 2:4; Galatians 5:22.

34. Even when people are abrasive in their manner, an individual who is long-suffering remains calm. —Gal.

35. 9 Parents need to be long-suffering if they are to be successful in rearing their children.

36. The general, a man by no means notable for docility and long - suffering , flew into a rage.

37. It builds up, for it is long-suffering and kind, bears and endures all things, and never fails.

38. Jehovah’s active force gives us wonderful fruitage: “Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control.”

39. Paul wrote: “Clothe yourselves with the tender affections of compassion, kindness, lowliness of mind, mildness, and long-suffering.”

40. 15 Coming now to the positive side, the things that love is, Paul begins: “Love is long-suffering.”

41. 11 Parents can imitate Jehovah in being long-suffering by not hastily giving up on the deviating child.

42. What is the literal meaning of the Greek word for “long-suffering,” and what does the word denote?

43. Imitating Jehovah, be long-suffering as you take positive steps to help your child come back to Jehovah.

44. Blockhead has a speaking entity in his head which acts as his long-suffering and long-ignored conscience

45. Long- suffering pigeons have been fitted with frosted glass “spectacles” so that they could not see specific landmarks.

46. Are you long-suffering, able to put up with the weaknesses of your brother or sister, mother or father?

47. (2 Timothy 3:10, 11) What a fine example the apostle Paul set for us in being long-suffering!

48. True, overseers sometimes need to “reprove, reprimand, exhort,” but this is done “with all long-suffering and art of teaching.”

49. But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth

50. The city’s expansion of its tourist-friendly streetcar network did little to help long-suffering NOLA Commuters, transit advocates say

51. Susan, my long suffering wife, who never batted an eyelid as this project unfolded and gave me lots of encouragement.

52. But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

53. On the hit 1960s sitcom Bewitched, Dick York played Darrin Stephens, the long-suffering mortal married to witch-turned-housewife, Samantha

54. (Ephesians 4:32) Paul emphasized: “Clothe yourselves with the tender affections of compassion, kindness, lowliness of mind, mildness, and long-suffering. . . .

55. 8 And backs off quick, before the long-suffering pimp shows up, and knocks the girl into shape with his jewelled fists.

56. I'm the One-Woman Show behind Brio + Brandish (with some help from my amazing and long-suffering husband of course)! Books are LIFE

57. Antonyms for Bleariest include brightest, liveliest, most unwearied, most distinct, most energised, most illuminated, most persistent, most unceasing, most long-suffering and most uncomplaining

58. He Bickeringly lives in a lifestyle-magazine-type hacienda with his long-suffering partner and producer Paul – in which role Paul Rudd does his best

59. (1 Timothy 4:16) Cultivating the fruitage of the spirit —love, kindness, goodness, mildness, and self-control— will enable us to be joyfully long-suffering.

60. (1 Peter 3:7) The weaknesses of his wife may sometimes try a husband, but long-suffering will help him to put up with them.

61. More importantly, with Jehovah’s holy spirit flowing freely, the fruitage of that spirit will flourish—”love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control.”

62. 11 If we obediently listen to God, his spirit produces in us the qualities of love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, and self-control.

63. He described the Witnesses as peaceable, loving, long-suffering, and service-minded as well as fearless and zealous in spreading the message of the Bible to others.

64. Its long-suffering citizens had captured a stranded Roman fleet in the Gulf of Tunis and stripped it of supplies, an action that aggravated the faltering negotiations.

65. 11 Long-suffering on the part of their members contributes to the peace and happiness of Christian communities, whether congregations, Bethel homes, missionary homes, construction teams, or schools.

66. We become peacemakers in our homes and families, we help our fellowmen everywhere, and we reach out in merciful acts of kindness, forgiveness, grace, and long-suffering patience.

67. 14 The apostle Paul likened long-suffering and other godly qualities to garments that the Christian should put on after stripping off practices characteristic of “the old personality.”

68. “No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood, only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned;

69. (1 Corinthians 13:5, 8) With an abiding love, such qualities as long-suffering, kindness, goodness, mildness, and self-control—fruitage of God’s spirit—will be easier to demonstrate.

70. (2 Timothy 1:14) It must be evident that God’s spirit is producing in these men the fruitage of “love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control.”

71. Perhaps the worst part of Chambermaid is that the book only works if we feel sympathy for the long-suffering heroine who is on the receiving end of the judge's vitriol

72. “By failing to properly investigate and bring to justice those responsible for the enforced disappearance of the 11 young people from Acari, the authorities are cruelly prolonging their relatives’ decades-long suffering.

73. Remember, “the fruitage of the spirit” —including the qualities of love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, and self-control— never goes out of fashion. —Galatians 5:22, 23; 1 Timothy 2:9, 10.

74. (Luke 7:37-50; 19:2-10) Rather than judging others on the basis of outward appearances, Jesus imitated his Father’s kindness, forbearance, and long-suffering with a view to leading them to repentance.

75. Section 121 goes on to say: “No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood, only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned;

76. Paul asked: “Do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long-suffering, because you do not know that the kindly quality of God is trying to lead you to repentance?” —Romans 2:4.

77. As they progressively heed the Bible’s counsel to clothe themselves with “the tender affections of compassion, kindness, lowliness of mind, mildness, and long-suffering,” they will make adjustments in the volume they use when conversing with others. —Col.

78. Cain and Abel Jewish Legend The Birth of Cain There were ten generations from Adam to Noah, to show how long-suffering is the Lord, for all the generations provoked Him unto wrath, until He brought the deluge upon them.

79. For instance, Ephesians 4:2, 3 admonishes true worshippers to act “with complete lowliness of mind and mildness, with long-suffering, putting up with one another in love, earnestly endeavoring to observe the oneness of the spirit in the uniting bond of peace.”

80. More remarkable, it spawned three of the greatest comic creations in television history: namely, the Adenoidal and long-suffering Olive, her misogynist husband Arthur, and the incomparable Blakey, with his toothbrush moustache and his catchphrase that still rings down the ages - "I'll get you, Butler!"