forbearance

²⁵whom God has offered as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to reveal his justice for the remission of the former offenses,

¹For this reason, O man, each one of you who judges is inexcusable. For by that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you do the same things that you judge. ²For we know that the judgment of God is in accord with truth against those who do such things. ³But, O man, when you judge those who do such things as you yourself also do, do you think that you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and patience and forbearance? Do you not know that the kindness of God is calling you to repentance? ⁵But in accord with your hard and impenitent heart, you store up wrath for yourself, unto the day of wrath and of revelation by the just judgment of God. ⁶For he will render to each one according to his works:

⁸But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,

⁴Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and patience and forbearance? Do you not know that the kindness of God is calling you to repentance?

²with all humility and meekness, with patience, supporting one another in charity.

⁶We have all gone astray like sheep; each one has turned aside to his own way. And the Lord has placed all our iniquity upon him.

¹³Support one another, and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive one another. For just as the Lord has forgiven you, so also must you do.

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, ²⁰the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions, ²¹envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God. ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance, ²³meekness, faith, modesty, abstinence, chastity. There is no law against such things. ²⁴For those who are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, along with its vices and desires.

¹If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing cymbal. ²And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing. ³And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers me nothing. ⁴Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. ⁵Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. ⁶Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth.

²And he is the propitiation for our sins. And not only for our sins, but also for those of the whole world.

²¹But now, without the law, the justice of God, to which the law and the prophets have testified, has been made manifest. ²²And the justice of God, through the faith of Jesus Christ, is in all those and over all those who believe in him. For there is no distinction. ²³For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God. ²⁴We have been justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵whom God has offered as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to reveal his justice for the remission of the former offenses, ²⁶and by the forbearance of God, to reveal his justice in this time, so that he himself might be both the Just One and the Justifier of anyone who is of the faith of Jesus Christ.

¹¹And this is the testimony which God has given to us: Eternal Life. And this Life is in his Son.

⁵Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is near.

¹⁶Do you not know that you are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God lives within you?