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Scripture for when you are waiting on God

Waiting is its own kind of suffering, and Scripture does not pretend it is easy. Here are grounded passages about patience, hope and God in the delay — cited to study slowly, which is rather the point.

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  • Romans 8:25World English Biblegrounded
    But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
  • Habakkuk 2:3World English Biblegrounded
    For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.
  • 2 Peter 1:6World English Biblegrounded
    and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;
  • Isaiah 30:18World English Biblegrounded
    Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
  • Genesis 49:18World English Biblegrounded
    I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

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