Let’s find out how we can live and operate in more patience and self control in our lives.

2 Pet. 3:9
2 Pet. 3:15a

Patience in Greek is makrothumia- to suffer long

2 Thess. 3:5

A different word for patience in the Greek is hupomonē - cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy: - enduring, (waiting).

2 Cor. 6:4-6
Phil. 4:13
James 5:7-8

Establish in Greek is stērizō- to set fast, to turn resolutely in a certain direction, to confirm: stedfastly set, strengthen.

Luke 8:15
Col. 1:9-11
James 5:7
Rom. 15:4
1 Thess. 1:3
Rom. 12:12
Gal. 6:7-9
Heb. 6:12
Heb. 10:36
Rom. 8:24-25
2 Tim. 2:24
Rom. 15:5
1 Thess. 5:14b
Eph. 4:2
James 1:2-4
Ps. 138:8
Heb. 12:2

Endured in Greek is hupomenō one of the definitions is he remained in patient perseverence.

Prov. 16:32
2 Pet. 1:5-6;8
Luke 21:19

Possess in Hebrew is ktaomai - to get, that is, acquire (own): - obtain.

Prov. 25:28
1 Pet. 1:13

One of the root words in Greek for gird is zōnnumi - to bind about (especially with a belt):

Heb. 12:1
1 Cor. 9:24-25

Temporate in Greek is egkrateuomai- to exercise self restraint (in diet and chastity): - (chastity means sexual purity.)

1 Thess. 4:3-5

Stay away in Greek is the word abstain - apechomai- to hold oneself off, that is, refrain:

1 Cor. 9:26-27

Subjection in Greek is doulagōgeō -to enslave (subdue)
Subdue means to rule.

Gen. 4:7
Acts 20:28

Heed in Greek is prosechō- to hold the mind, pay attention to, be cautious about, apply oneself to, adhere to: - attend, beware, be given to, have regard.

Ps. 32:8-9
Rom. 8:3
Rom. 6:12;16-22
Gal. 5:7-9
Prov. 16:17

Preserve in Hebrew is shâmar -to hedge about (as with thorns), that is, guard; generally to protect, attend to, - beware, take heed (to self), keep (-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, reserve, save (self), wait (for), watch (-man).

Rom. 8:6
Rom. 8:5-6;8
Prov. 5:22-23
Heb. 12:11
2 Tim. 3:1-3

The Greek word for church is ekklēsia - called out.

1 Pet. 2:9-11
1 Pet. 3:10
Prov. 13:3
Prov. 10:19
Ps. 141:3
James 1:26
James 3:2-5a
Luke 6:43-45