PATIENCE
(See also Endurance; Impatience; Long-Suffering; Waiting)
aids to patience: w17.08 7
benefits: w23.08 25; w12 9/15 22; w97 11/15 22; w95 6/15 11-12
Bible examples: w23.08 22-25; w03 1/15 16-17; w95 6/15 11
Abraham: w23.08 24; scl 89; w17.08 5-6; w95 1/15 18
angels: w09 5/15 24
David: w21.03 4; w17.08 6-7
Esther: ia 138-140; w12 1/1 25-26
Isaiah: w06 2/1 19-20; w94 9/15 17
Jehovah: w23.08 23; scl 89; mwb22.11 10; w20.08 10, 18-19; w19.06 20-21; w18.08 30; w17.08 7; w12 9/15 18-20; w10 1/1 23; w10 1/15 27; w06 2/1 17-21; km 7/00 4; w91 10/1 3-7
Jesus: w23.08 23-24; cf 162-163; lmd lesson 8; w17.08 7; jy 317; ia 198-199; w12 9/15 20; w10 4/1 21-22; w05 4/1 9-10
Joseph (son of Jacob): scl 89; w17.08 6
Micah: w17.08 4; km 1/14 1; w13 11/15 10-11; w94 9/15 19
prophets: w06 2/1 19-20
Zechariah and Elizabeth: w94 7/15 26-27
cultivating patience: w23.08 22-25; scl 89; w18.08 28-29; w17.08 25-26; w12 9/15 20-22; g 12/12 8-9
discussion: w23.08 20-25; w18.08 28-30; w12 9/15 18-22; w95 6/15 9-12; w94 5/15 21-23
elders: cf 163; w22.02 18; w95 6/15 12
examples:
caring for chronically ill: w18.08 30
helping offspring overcome doubts: w18.08 29-30
husband suffers anxiety attacks: w20.08 19
ministerial servant: w13 1/15 20-21
with other Witnesses: w16.01 16
workmate’s harassment: yb01 60
experiences:
accept truth after many years: w14 3/15 5; w13 3/15 30-32
argumentative elderly Bible student: w90 3/15 22-23
awaits traveling overseer with lamp aloft: w07 3/1 19
awaits Witnesses two years after convention: yb06 46
dirty, obnoxious homeless man reached: w17.06 14-15
door barely opens: w03 8/1 8
neighbors’ opposition patiently endured: yb92 63-64
reluctant Bible student: w90 3/15 22
short attention span: yb95 50
tears touch Bible student: w96 10/15 28-29
fruitage of God’s spirit: w18.08 28-30
importance: w23.08 22
in field ministry: mwb24.07 8; scl 98; lmd lesson 8; bt 104; w20.09 10-12; w19.03 23-24; w19.07 18-19; km 6/11 1; w07 3/1 19; w07 11/15 23-24; w03 11/15 17-18; km 1/99 1; w94 9/15 19-20; km 7/91 1; om 90
video “We Recommend Ourselves as God’s Ministers ... by Patience”—When Preaching: mwb24.09 16
in marriage: ijwhf article 8; w20.08 32
in new world: w15 8/15 21
in teaching: w94 9/15 29-30
link with faith: w12 9/15 20
link with humility: cl 200, 203, 208
“love is patient” (1Co 13:4): cl 302-303
meaning of term: w23.08 20-21; w18.08 28; w17.08 4; w06 2/1 17; w96 12/1 22; w94 5/15 21
parents: mwb25.07 5; cf 163; w07 9/1 21-22; w01 10/1 15-16
video ‘With Patience, Put Up With One Another in Love’—Your Children: mwb25.07 5
waiting on Jehovah: w24.02 26-27; w23.08 22; mwb22.03 12-13; w21.08 8-13; w17.08 3-7; w15 4/15 26; w13 11/15 10-14; w12 5/15 21; w07 3/1 17-19; jd 39-40; w04 6/1 22-23; w04 10/1 20-23; w00 9/1 11-16
for blessings: w16.08 22-23; w06 1/1 24; w98 1/1 23-24
for end of old system: w23.08 24
when suffering: w87 2/15 23-25
when suffering anxiety: w94 11/15 23-24
when things take longer than expected: w06 6/1 13-14
with Christian brothers: w19.06 20-21; w16.01 16; w97 11/15 22; w86 6/1 24-25
with friend suffering mental distress: wp23.1 15
with unbelieving relatives: w19.08 17
with wife: w07 2/15 17