2 Peter 3:9

Legacy Standard Bible

The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some consider slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

Cross References

Psalm 77:8

Has His lovingkindness ceased forever? Has His word ended from generation to generation?

Psalm 86:15

But You, O Lord, are a God compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.

Exodus 18:23

If you do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”

Exodus 32:32

But now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out from Your book which You have written!”

Exodus 33:11

Thus Yahweh used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, and his attendant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

Exodus 34:6

Then Yahweh passed by in front of him and called out, “Yahweh, Yahweh God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil.

Isaiah 30:18

¶Therefore Yahweh waits with longing to be gracious to you, And therefore He is on high to have compassion on you. For Yahweh is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who wait for Him.

Isaiah 46:13

“I bring near My righteousness, it is not far off; And My salvation will not delay. And I will grant salvation in Zion, And My glory for Israel.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them, ‘As I live!’ declares Lord Yahweh, ‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?’

Daniel 4:29

At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon.

Habakkuk 2:3

“For the vision is yet for the appointed time; It pants toward its end, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come; it will not delay.

Romans 13:11

And do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed.

Romans 13:12

The night is almost gone, and the day is at hand. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Romans 2:4

Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

Romans 9:22

And what if God, wanting to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction,

1 Timothy 1:16

Yet for this reason I was shown mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Christ Jesus might demonstrate all His patience as an example for those who are going to believe upon Him for eternal life.

1 Timothy 2:4

who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 10:37

For yet in a very little while, He who is coming will come, and will not delay.

1 Peter 3:20

who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.

2 Peter 1:4

For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.

2 Peter 3:15

and consider the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you,

Revelation 2:21

And I gave her time to repent, and she does not wish to repent of her sexual immorality.