Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
divine Delays » Try men's courage and patience
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Therefore be patient, brothers, until 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 the latter rain.
My eyes fail for Your Word, saying, When will You comfort me?
Therefore, when He had heard that he was sick, then indeed He remained two days in the place where He was.
But I am poor and needy; Jehovah will care for me; You are my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not wait.
I am weary from my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
God » Leader » Longsuffering of
For My name's sake I will put off My anger, and for My praise I will hold back for you, that I do not cut you off.
What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction;
to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering 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);
Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation.
But My eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
Longsuffering » Of God
For My name's sake I will put off My anger, and for My praise I will hold back for you, that I do not cut you off.
What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction;
to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering 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);
Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation.
But My eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
Longsuffering Of God » Should lead to repentance
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and the forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
Opportunity » Universal » Salvation possible to all men
who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
And it shall be that everyone who shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
Therefore as by one offense sentence came on all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of One the free gift came to all men to justification of life.
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world,
And all flesh shall see the salvation of God."
For everyone, "whoever shall call on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Prayer » For miscellaneous topics relating to the devotional life, » Answer delayed
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Therefore be patient, brothers, until 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 the latter rain.
My eyes fail for Your Word, saying, When will You comfort me?
Therefore, when He had heard that he was sick, then indeed He remained two days in the place where He was.
But I am poor and needy; Jehovah will care for me; You are my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not wait.
I am weary from my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
Repentance » We should be led to, by » Longsuffering Of God
to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering 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);
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, in his erring; he is flesh. Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Repentance » The lord giving time for sinners to repent
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
Salvation » Conditions of » Possible to all men
who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
And it shall be that everyone who shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
Therefore as by one offense sentence came on all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of One the free gift came to all men to justification of life.
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world,
And all flesh shall see the salvation of God."
For everyone, "whoever shall call on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Sinners » Conditions of » Possible to all men
who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
And it shall be that everyone who shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
Therefore as by one offense sentence came on all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of One the free gift came to all men to justification of life.
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world,
And all flesh shall see the salvation of God."
For everyone, "whoever shall call on the name of the Lord will be saved."
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » Divine delays test men's courage and patience
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Therefore be patient, brothers, until 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 the latter rain.
My eyes fail for Your Word, saying, When will You comfort me?
Therefore, when He had heard that he was sick, then indeed He remained two days in the place where He was.
But I am poor and needy; Jehovah will care for me; You are my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not wait.
I am weary from my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
Will of God » What is the will of God
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes on Me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you also have seen Me and do not believe. All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will in no way cast out. read more.
For I came down from Heaven, not to do My own will but the will of Him who sent Me. And this is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all which He has given Me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes on Him should have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the last day.
For I came down from Heaven, not to do My own will but the will of Him who sent Me. And this is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all which He has given Me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes on Him should have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the last day.
Then be in obedience to every ordinance of men, because of the Lord, whether to a king as supreme, or to governors as sent by Him for vengeance on evildoers, but for praise on well-doers. For such is the will of God, doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish men;
For we know what commands we gave you by the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication, each one of you to know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor read more.
(not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God), not to go beyond and defraud his brother in this matter (because the Lord is the avenger concerning all these, as we also have forewarned you and testified). For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.
(not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God), not to go beyond and defraud his brother in this matter (because the Lord is the avenger concerning all these, as we also have forewarned you and testified). For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.
Now we exhort you, brothers, warn those who are unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all. See that none gives evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both towards one another and towards all. Rejoice evermore. read more.
Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Will of God » What is not the will of God
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost. What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, does he not leave the ninety and nine and go into the mountains and seek the straying one? And if it happens that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety and nine which did not stray. read more.
Even so it is not the will of your Father in Heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
Even so it is not the will of your Father in Heaven that one of these little ones should perish.