2 Peter 3:9

Modern King James Version

The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Cross References

Psalm 77:8

Is His mercy gone forever? Has His Word failed for all generations?

Psalm 86:15

But You, O God, are God full of pity, and gracious, long-suffering, and rich in mercy and truth.

Exodus 18:23

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

Exodus 32:32

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

Exodus 33:11

And Jehovah would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he turned again to the camp. But his servant, Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the middle of the tabernacle.

Exodus 34:6

And Jehovah passed by before him and proclaimed, Jehovah! Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Isaiah 30:18

And so Jehovah waits to be gracious to you. And therefore He is exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For Jehovah is a God of judgment; blessed are all those who wait for Him.

Isaiah 46:13

I bring near My righteousness. It shall not be far off, and My salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion, My glory for Israel.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, I have no delight in the death of the wicked, except in the turning of the wicked from his way, and so to 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 in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.

Habakkuk 2:3

For the vision is still for an appointed time, but it speaks to the end, and it does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it; because it will surely come. It will not tarry.

Romans 13:11

This also, knowing the time, that it is already time to awake out of 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 cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Romans 2:4

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and the forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness 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 long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction;

1 Timothy 1:16

But for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, as a pattern to those being about to believe on Him to life everlasting.

1 Timothy 2:4

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

Hebrews 10:37

For "yet a little while, and He who shall come will come and will not delay."

1 Peter 3:20

to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering of God waited 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

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

2 Peter 3:15

And think of the long-suffering of our Lord as salvation (as our beloved brother Paul also has written to you according to the wisdom given to him

Revelation 2:21

And I gave her time that she might repent of her fornication, and she did not repent.