Patience

PATIENCE, PATIENT, PATIENTLY
B. Verbs.
1. hupomeno NT:5278, akin to A, No. 1, (a) used intransitively, means "to tarry behind, still abide," Luke 2:43; Acts 17:14; (b) transitively, "to wait for," Rom 8:24 (in some mss.), "to bear patiently, endure," translated "patient" (present participle) in Rom 12:12; "ye take it patiently," 1 Peter 2:20 (twice). See also under A, No. 1.
2. makrothumeo NT:3114, akin to A, No. 2, "to be long-tempered," is translated "to have patience," or "to be patient," in Matt 18:26,29; 1 Thess 5:14, KJV (RV, "be longsuffering"); James 5:7 (1 st part, "be patient"; 2 nd part, RV, "being patient," KJV, "hath long patience"); in Heb 6:15, RV, "having (KJV, after he had) patiently endured." See LONGSUFFERING.

NT:3115 makrothumia, makrothumias, hee
1. patience, endurance, constancy, steadfastness, perseverance; especially as shown in bearing troubles and ills (Plutarch, Luc. 32 f;
2. patience, forbearance, long-suffering, slowness in avenging wrongs, (for 'erek 'apayim, Jer 15:15): Rom 2:4; 9:22; 2 Cor 6:6; Gal 5:22; Eph 4:2; Col 3:12; 1 Tim 1:16 (compare Buttmann, 120 (105)); 2 Tim 4:2; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 3:15; (Clement of Rome, 1 Cor 13; 1; Ignatius ad Eph. 3, 1).
Lightfoot remarks (on Colossians, the passage cited), The difference of meaning is best seen in their opposites. Makrothumia is the self-restraint which does not hastily retaliate a wrong. The one is opposed to cowardice or despondency, the other to wrath or revenge (Prov 15:18; 16:32) ... This distinction, though it applies generally, is not true without exception ...; compare also his note on Col 3:12, and see (more at length) Trench, N.T. Synonyms, sec. liii.)
(from Thayer's Greek Lexicon, Electronic Database. Copyright © 2000, 2003 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
Longsuffering:
Thinking about Peace, we need to reflect on the fruit we have learned about so far:
*love- agapo= loving the unlovable as Christ first loved us
*joy-exhibiting joy in all situations
*peace-in all situations
From what I am gathering here about patience and the meaning of the originial word, the peace which is a fruit of the Spirit is the kind of peace that does not 'get back', and it is the kind we are supposed to have during trials and troubles.
Let's look at some scriptural examples of that peace:
• Romans 2:4
• Romans 9:22
• 2 Cor. 6:6
• Eph. 4:2
• Col. 3:12
• 1 Tim. 1:16
• 2 Tim. 3:10
• 2 Tim. 4:2-
• Heb. 6:12-
• James 5:10-
• 1 Pet. 3:20-
• 2 Pet. 3:15-