8 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

Therefore when He heard that he was sick, He then remained two days in the place in which He was.

Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

Therefore, O brethren, suffer long, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer receives the precious fruit of the earth, waiting for it, until he may receive the former and latter rain:

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some people count slackness; but is long-suffering for your sakes, not wishing that any should perish, but all come to repentance.

and he said to the vinedresser, Behold, three years from which I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and I find none: cut it down; why indeed does it cumber the ground?

And responding he says to him, Lord, let it alone also this year, until I shall dig about it, and cast manures:

and if it may bear fruit in the future; and if not you shall cut it down.

who at one time were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, the ark being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through the water.