2 Peter 3:9

Modern English Version

The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness. But He is patient with us, because He does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance.

Cross References

Psalm 77:8

Has His mercy ceased forever? Have His promises failed for all time?

Psalm 86:15

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

Exodus 18:23

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

Exodus 32:32

Yet now, if You will, forgive their sin, but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.”

Exodus 33:11

The Lord spoke to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When he returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tent.

Exodus 34:6

The Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in goodness and truth,

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of people is fully set to do evil.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore, the Lord longs to be gracious to you, and therefore, He waits on high to have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of justice; how blessed are all who long for Him.

Isaiah 46:13

I bring My righteousness near; it shall not be far off, and My salvation shall not tarry. And I will grant salvation in Zion, and My glory for Israel.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?

Daniel 4:29

At the end of twelve months he walked on the roof of the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.

Habakkuk 2:3

For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but it speaks of the end, and does not lie. If it delays, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay.

Romans 13:11

Furthermore, knowing the time, now is the moment to awake from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

Romans 13:12

The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us take off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Romans 2:4

Do you despise the riches of His goodness, tolerance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Romans 9:22

What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

1 Timothy 1:16

But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, first, Jesus Christ might show all patience, as an example to those who were to believe in Him for eternal life.

1 Timothy 2:4

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

Hebrews 10:37

For, “In yet a little while, He who is to come will come, and will not wait.

1 Peter 3:20

who in times past were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

2 Peter 1:4

by which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that through these things you might become partakers of the divine nature and escape the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2 Peter 3:15

Keep in mind that the patience of our Lord means salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul has also written to you according to the wisdom given to him.

Revelation 2:21

I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, but she did not repent.