2 Peter 3:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is patient toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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  • 1 Tim 2:4 : 4 Who desires all people to be saved and to come to 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 tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.
  • Isa 30:18 : 18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious to 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 those who wait for him.
  • Rom 2:4 : 4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
  • Heb 10:37 : 37 For yet a little while, and he who is coming will come and will not tarry.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plentiful in mercy and truth.
  • Luke 18:7-8 : 7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night to him, though he bears long with them? 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?
  • 1 Pet 3:20 : 20 Who formerly were disobedient, when once the longsuffering 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 Pet 3:15 : 15 And consider that the patience of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given to him has written to you;
  • Rom 9:22 : 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 Tim 1:16 : 16 However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all patience as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.
  • Rev 2:21 : 21 And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.
  • Isa 46:13 : 13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not delay: 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, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,"
  • Exod 18:23 : 23 If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will go to their place in peace.
  • Exod 32:32 : 32 Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of Your book which You have written."
  • Exod 33:11 : 11 And the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he returned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.

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  • 2 Pet 3:6-8
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    6By which the world that then existed, being overflowed with water, perished:

    7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved for fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

    8But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

  • 2 Pet 3:10-15
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    76%

    10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are in it shall be burned up.

    11Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conduct and godliness,

    12Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

    13Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.

    14Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found by him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

    15And consider that the patience of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given to him has written to you;

  • Rom 2:4-5
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    4Or do you despise the riches of His goodness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

    5But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

  • Heb 10:36-37
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    36For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

    37For yet a little while, and he who is coming will come and will not tarry.

  • 2 Pet 3:2-4
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    2That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

    3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

    4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

  • Acts 17:30
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    30Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

  • Acts 3:19
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    19Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

  • Jas 5:7-8
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    7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.

    8Be also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is near.

  • Jonah 3:9
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    9Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we do not perish?

  • 1 Tim 2:4
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    4Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

  • 2 Thess 1:8-9
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    8In flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

    9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

  • 1 Thess 5:9
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    9For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • Num 14:18
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    18The LORD is longsuffering and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.

  • 2 Pet 2:9
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    9The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment;

  • 1 Pet 3:20
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    20Who formerly were disobedient, when once the longsuffering 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.

  • Heb 6:11-12
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    11And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end,

    12That you not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

  • Rom 9:22
    68%

    22What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction:

  • Isa 30:18
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    18And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious to 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 those who wait for him.

  • Hab 2:3
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    3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie: though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.

  • 1 Cor 1:7
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    7So that you come short in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

  • Amos 7:3
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    3The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, says the LORD.

  • Nah 1:3
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    3The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

  • Rom 1:18
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    18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness;

  • Jas 1:19
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    19Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

  • 1 Thess 1:10
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    10And to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

  • Jude 1:15
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    15to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.'

  • Ps 90:13
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    13Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.

  • 1 Thess 5:2
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    2For you know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.

  • Titus 2:11
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    11For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,

  • Isa 13:9
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    9Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he will destroy the sinners out of it.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lewdness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Lam 3:22
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    22It is because of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail.

  • Ps 145:8
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    8The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

  • Jude 1:21
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    21keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

  • Heb 4:1
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    1Let us therefore fear, lest, while a promise of entering into his rest remains, any of you should seem to have come short of it.