2 Peter 3:9

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing 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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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Tim 2:4 : 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Isa 30:18 : 18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: 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 little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Ps 86:15 : 15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
Luke 18:7-8 : 7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
1 Pet 3:20 : 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by 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 unto him hath written unto you;
Rom 9:22 : 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
1 Tim 1:16 : 16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Rev 2:21 : 21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
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 the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness 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 shall also 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 the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

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