2 Peter 3:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

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  • 1 Tim 2:4 : 4 who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;
  • Hab 2:3 : 3 For yet the vision `is' for a season, And it breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, it is not late.
  • Isa 30:18 : 18 And therefore doth wait Jehovah to favour you, And therefore He is exalted to pity you, For a God of judgment `is' Jehovah, O the blessedness of all waiting for Him.
  • Rom 2:4 : 4 or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? -- not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!
  • Heb 10:37 : 37 for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 And Thou, O Lord, `art' God, merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth.
  • Luke 18:7-8 : 7 and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night -- bearing long in regard to them? 8 I say to you, that He will execute the justice to them quickly; but the Son of Man having come, shall he find the faith upon the earth?'
  • 1 Pet 3:20 : 20 who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;
  • 2 Pet 3:15 : 15 and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul -- according to the wisdom given to him -- did write to you,
  • Rom 9:22 : 22 And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,
  • 1 Tim 1:16 : 16 but because of this I found kindness, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern of those about to believe on him to life age-during:
  • Rev 2:21 : 21 and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform;
  • Isa 46:13 : 13 I have brought near My righteousness, It is not far off, And My salvation -- it doth not tarry, And I have given in Zion salvation, To Israel My glory!
  • Exod 34:6 : 6 and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,
  • Exod 18:23 : 23 If thou dost this thing, and God hath commanded thee, then thou hast been able to stand, and all this people also goeth in unto its place in peace.'
  • Exod 32:32 : 32 and now, if Thou takest away their sin -- and if not -- blot me, I pray thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.'
  • Exod 33:11 : 11 And Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses face unto face, as a man speaketh unto his friend; and he hath turned back unto the camp, and his minister Joshua, son of Nun, a youth, departeth not out of the tent.

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    6through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;

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    8And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord `is' as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;

  • 2 Pet 3:10-15
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    10and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

    11All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?

    12waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt;

    13and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;

    14wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

    15and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul -- according to the wisdom given to him -- did write to you,

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    4or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? -- not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

    5but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

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    36for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

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    2to be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour,

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    19reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

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    7Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter;

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  • 2 Thess 1:8-9
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    22And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

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    3For yet the vision `is' for a season, And it breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, it is not late.

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    18for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.

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    19So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

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    10and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He did raise out of the dead -- Jesus, who is rescuing us from the anger that is coming.

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    21yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ -- to life age-during;

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