Long suffering is to put up with a disagreeable situation for a long time yet still do what you feel you should do regardless of the situation over an extended period of time.
Longsuffering
μακροθυμία
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Longsuffering?
It usually depends upon the translational version. In the NKJV it appears 16 times. Another way of saying longsuffering is 'patience.'
From the English Wiktionary: longsuffering: Alternative form of long-suffering. long-suffering: Having endured mental or physical discomfort for a protracted period of time patiently or without complaint.
yes its in the book of Galatians 5:22-23
Longsuffering means patience - sometimes extraordinary patience as God shows to all His children. Many others like Moses showed longsuffering with the Congregation of Israel but surely God shows it most of all.
In the Kign James version the word - longsuffering - appears 16 times * Exo 34:6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, * Num 14:18 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. * Jer 15:15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. * Rom 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? * Rom 9:22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: * 2 Cor 6:6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, * Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, * Eph 4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; * Col 1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; * Col 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; * 1 Tim 1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. * 2 Tim 3:10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, * 2 Tim 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. * 1 Pet 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. * 2 Pet 3:9 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. * 2 Pet 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
Longsuffering is another way of saying patience. If someone is giving you a bad time in your life or you are going through a lot of problems, longsuffering and patience will help you endure what is happening in your life with God's help, of course. God is referred to as being longsuffering in the Bible in reference to how He gives people time to repent before He punishes them. This was the case with the Israelites as well as other nations.
"Longsuffering" appears 17x in the King James Bible.
oNE OF Gods charactics is, that God is LONGSUFFERING,,,, meaning he is patient and wishes all of his creation to repent.