2 Peter 3:9

World English Bible (2000)

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing 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 come to full knowledge of the truth.
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.
  • Isa 30:18 : 18 Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
  • Rom 2:4 : 4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
  • Heb 10:37 : 37 "In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
  • Luke 18:7-8 : 7 Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? 8 I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
  • 1 Pet 3:20 : 20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
  • 2 Pet 3:15 : 15 Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
  • Rom 9:22 : 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
  • 1 Tim 1:16 : 16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
  • Rev 2:21 : 21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
  • Isa 46:13 : 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 for Israel my glory.
  • Exod 34:6 : 6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
  • Exod 18:23 : 23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."
  • Exod 32:32 : 32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin--and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."
  • Exod 33:11 : 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.

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    6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

    7 But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

    8 But don't forget this one thing, beloved, 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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    10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

    11 Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

    12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

    13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

    14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.

    15 Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;

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

    5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

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

    37 "In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

  • 2 Pet 3:2-4
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    2 that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

    3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

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  • Acts 17:30
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    30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

  • Acts 3:19
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    19 "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

  • Jas 5:7-8
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    7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

    8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

  • Jonah 3:9
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    9 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"

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

  • 2 Thess 1:8-9
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    8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

    9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

  • 1 Thess 5:9
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    9 For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • Num 14:18
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    18 'Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.'

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    9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

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    20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

  • Heb 6:11-12
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    11 We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

    12 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

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    22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,

  • Isa 30:18
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    18 Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

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    7 so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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    3 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh 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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    18 For 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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    19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

  • 1 Thess 1:10
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    10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead--Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

  • Jude 1:15
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    15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

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    13 Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

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    2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

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    11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

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    4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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    8 Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

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

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