2 Thessalonians 1:4

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

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

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: