2 Peter 3:9

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance.

Cross References

1 Timothy 2:4

Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Romans 2:4

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? Knowest thou not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

Habakkuk 2:3

For as yet the vision is far off, and it shall appear at the end, and shall not lie: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely come, and it shall not be slack.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore the Lord waiteth that be may have mercy on you, and therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God of judgment. Blessed are all they that wait for him.

Revelation 2:21

And I gave her a time that she might do penance, and she will not repent of her fornication.

2 Peter 3:15

And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation; as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you:

1 Timothy 1:16

But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.

Hebrews 10:37

For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come, will come, and will not delay.

Exodus 34:6

And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true,

Romans 9:22

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,

Exodus 18:23

If thou dost this, thou shalt fulfil the commandment of God, and shalt be able to bear his precepts: and all this people shall return to their places with peace.

1 Peter 3:20

Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.

Exodus 32:32

Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written.

Exodus 33:11

And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man is wont to speak to his friend. And when he returned into the camp, his servant Josue the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the tabernacle.

Psalm 77:8

That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse end exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

Romans 13:11

And that knowing the season; that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

Romans 13:12

The night is passed, and the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and put on the armour of light.

2 Peter 1:4

By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.