YY is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
And therefore will YY wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for YY is an Elohim of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Y'shuw`a HaMoshiach 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 Elohim waited in the days of Noach, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
And YY spake unto Moshe face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Y'howshu`a, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
Say unto them, As I live, saith YY Elohim, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Yisrael?
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.