Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy, 1:12.
The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and plenteous in mercy.
Patience and longsuffering with joyfulness' seems at first but a poor result of such a force, but it comes from a heart that was under no illusions as to the facts of human life, and it finds a response in us all.
ALL POWER' 'Strengthened with all power, according to the might of His glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy.
The two moral virtues that most resemble hope are longsuffering and magnanimity, for the former is the expectation of good that is distant, while the latter is the readiness to encounter difficulties in the quest of high ideals.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
And it is only by a voluntary limitation of this freedom that He exhibits long toleration with the intractable and {40} obstinate, and is longsuffering with them even when His wrath is ready and waiting to show itself.
The strength is worthily employed and absorbed in producing "all patience and longsuffering with joy.
Then comes the third element in this resolution of the Christian character into its component parts--"strengthened with all power, according to the might of His glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.
Meekness and longsufferingmust stand on a basis of humility.
He cannot wish to contradict the first part of that gracious memorial which God gave to Moses: "The Lord, the Lord God merciful and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin.
The longsuffering of the righteous God was exhausted, and Joshua and his people were the instruments by whom the judicial punishment was to be inflicted.
Patience and Longsuffering For this cause we also, .
It would seem that Providence itself assumed the guidance of this longsuffering Union army, that had been so often led by incompetence in the field and paralyzed by interference at Washington.
At Gettysburg this patient, longsuffering army gave its answer.
Oh, what a sinner I have been, and what a longsuffering God!
Henceforth let us be reverent; let us fear the longsuffering of God, lest it turn into a judgment against us.
Longsuffering is the patient magnanimity of Christian goodness, the broad shoulders on which it "beareth all things" (1 Cor.
Mercy and longsuffering are qualities that we share with God Himself, in which God was, and is, "manifest in the flesh.
To withstand his continued assaults we must be longsuffering and patiently wait for the devil to get tired of his game.
But when patience and longsuffering are permeated and suffused with joyfulness, the very life of Christ is lived over again in His followers.
Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.
The principle or standard of it is "according to His glorious power," and the end of it is "unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.
Patience andlongsuffering without joy are apt to be cold, chilly, unattractive.
It is an apt climax when the Apostle adds, "Be longsuffering toward all.
And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.
Surely it is not too much for us to belongsuffering toward all.
But much patience is assured in this, if much longsuffering bears with much gentleness much that opposes and thwarts.
For patience without longsufferingwill not be much, but short; and without gentleness will merely not exist.
In the later prophets the love and grace and longsuffering of Yahweh and His ceaseless efforts on behalf of Israel are continually made the ground of exhortations, entreaties, and reproaches; but, as a whole, the people still did not respond.
Paul makes a distinction between longsuffering and forbearance, as in Romans 2, 4: "Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering?
The longsuffering Christian, however, is opposed to revenge, desiring the sinner to amend his ways.
From longsuffering and meekness the apostle distinguishes love and other jewels of spiritual beauty whereof we have already heard, though all are comprehended in love.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "longsuffering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
