He was patient, Longsuffering and merciful and forgiving.
With all lowliness and meekness, with Longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, Longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
God's tremendous Longsuffering with man is seen in the fact that He allowed
Methuselah to live longer than any other human being- 969 years.
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.
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.