PATIENCE
It involves suffering adverse circumstances while waiting, but voluntarily, and not out of mere necessity.
There are many exhortations to the Christian for the exercise of this virtue, so that the believer can endure without murmuring those trials ordained by the Lord, as well as the oppositions, injustices and provocations that may fall upon him for the name of Christ (Rom. 5:3, 4; 8:25; 15:4; Gal. 5:22; Eph. 4:22; Col. 1:11; 3:12; Tit. 2:2; Heb. 6:12; 10 :36; James 1:3, 4; 5:7, 8, 10, 11; 2 Pet. 1:6, etc.).
This patience of the saints must be a reflection of the patience of God himself, who is called “the God of patience” (Rom. 15:5), who has certainly shown it towards a world full of sin, with a view to the cross. of Christ: “having passed over in his patience past sins” (Rom. 3:25).
Also in the ancient world God revealed his patience by leaving a long period of time for repentance to Noah’s contemporaries (1 Pet. 3:20), and it is insisted that “the patience of God leads to salvation” (2 P. 3:15).
Because the believer must manifest the spirit of Christ, he is called to exercise “the patience of Christ” (cf. 2 Thes. 3:5), and this “until the coming of the Lord” (James 5:7). .