2 Peter 3:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐ βραδύνει ὁ Κύριος τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, ὥς τινες βραδύτητα ἡγοῦνται· ἀλλὰ μακροθυμεῖ εἰς ἡμᾶς, μὴ βουλόμενός τινας ἀπολέσθαι, ἀλλὰ πάντας εἰς μετάνοιαν χωρῆσαι.

Transliteration

Not bradynei the Kyrios of-the epangelias, as some bradytēta hēgountai; but makrothymei toward us, not boulomenos any to-apolesthai, but all into metanoian chōrēsai.

Grammar Details

*bradynei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - delays/is slow
*Kyrios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Lord/Master
*epangelias*: genitive, feminine, singular - of promise/pledge
*bradytēta*: accusative, feminine, singular - slowness/delay
*hēgountai*: present middle indicative, 3rd person plural - they consider/regard/think
*makrothymei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is patient/forbearing
*boulomenos*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, singular - willing/wanting/desiring
*apolesthai*: aorist middle infinitive - to perish/be destroyed
*metanoian*: accusative, feminine, singular - repentance/change of mind
*chōrēsai*: aorist active infinitive - to make room for/proceed/come to

Word Meanings

*bradynei*: delays/is slow/tarries
*Kyrios*: Lord/Master/Ruler
*epangelias*: promise/pledge/announcement
*bradytēta*: slowness/delay/tardiness
*hēgountai*: consider/regard/think/count
*makrothymei*: is patient/forbearing/longsuffering
*boulomenos*: willing/wanting/desiring/wishing
*apolesthai*: to perish/be destroyed/be lost
*metanoian*: repentance/change of mind/transformation of thinking
*chōrēsai*: to make room for/proceed/come to/enter into

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Tim 2:4 : 4 who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.
Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.
Isa 30:18 : 18 And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for Jehovah is a God of justice; blessed are all they that wait for him.
Rom 2:4 : 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Heb 10:37 : 37 For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.
Ps 86:15 : 15 But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
Luke 18:7-8 : 7 And shall not God avenge his elect, that cry to him day and night, and [yet] he is longsuffering over them? 8 I say unto you, that he will avenge them {G1722} speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
1 Pet 3:20 : 20 that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein {G3739} few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:
2 Pet 3:15 : 15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote unto you;
Rom 9:22 : 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:
1 Tim 1:16 : 16 but for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me as chief might Jesus Christ show forth all his longsuffering, for a ensample of them that should thereafter believe on him unto eternal life.
Rev 2:21 : 21 And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.
Isa 46:13 : 13 I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
Exod 34:6 : 6 And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth;
Exod 18:23 : 23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.
Exod 32:32 : 32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Exod 33:11 : 11 And Jehovah spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the Tent.

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