2 Peter 3:9

The Scriptures 1998

יהוה  is not slow in regard to the promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward us, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Cross References

Psalm 77:8

Has His kindness ceased forever, Has the promise failed for all generations?

Psalm 86:15

But You, O יהוה, Are a compassionate Ě

Exodus 18:23

“If you do this word, and Elohim shall command you, then you shall be able to stand and all this people also go to their place in peace.”

Exodus 32:32

“And now, if You would forgive their sin, but if not, please blot me out of Your book which You have written.”

Exodus 33:11

Thus יהוה  spoke to Mosheh face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Yehoshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the Tent.

Exodus 34:6

And יהוה  passed before him and proclaimed, “יהוה, יהוה, an Ě

Ecclesiastes 8:11

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

Isaiah 30:18

And therefore יהוה  shall wait, to show you favour. And therefore He shall be exalted, to have compassion on you. For יהוה  is an Elohim of right-ruling. Blessed are all those who wait for Him.

Isaiah 46:13

“I shall bring My righteousness near, it is not far off, and My deliverance, it is not delayed. And I shall give deliverance in Tsiyon, My esteem to Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 33:11

“Say to them, ‘As I live,’ declares the Master יהוה, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wrong, but that the wrong turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Yisra’ĕ

Daniel 4:29

At the end of the twelve months he was walking about the palace of the reign of Baḇ

Habakkuk 2:3

“For the vision is yet for an appointed time, and it speaks of the end, and does not lie. If it lingers, wait for it, for it shall certainly come, it shall not delay.

Romans 13:11

And do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for us to wake up from sleep, for now our deliverance is nearer than when we did believe.

Romans 13:12

The night is far advanced, the day has come near. So let us put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Romans 2:4

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and tolerance, and patience, not knowing that the kindness of Elohim leads you to repentance?

Romans 9:22

And if Elohim, desiring to show wrath, and to make His power known, with much patience tolerated the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

1 Timothy 1:16

But because of this I received compassion, so that in me first, יהושע  Messiah might display all patience, as an example to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting 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 yet a little while – He who is coming shall come and shall not delay.”

1 Peter 3:20

who were disobedient at one time when the patience of Elohim waited in the days of Noaḥ

2 Peter 1:4

Through these there have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that through these you might be partakers of the Mighty-like nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world, caused by lust.

2 Peter 3:15

and reckon the patience of our Master as deliverance, as also our beloved brother Sha’ul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,

Revelation 2:21

“And I gave her time to repent of her whoring, and she did not repent.