8 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

When, however, He heard that Lazarus was ill, He still remained two days in that same place.

So Martha came and spoke to Jesus. "Master, if you had been here," she said, "my brother would not have died.

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the Coming of the Lord. Notice how eagerly a farmer waits for a valuable crop! He is patient over it till it has received the early and the later rain.

The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise, in the sense in which some men speak of slowness. But He bears patiently with you, His desire being that no one should perish but that all should come to repentance.

So he said to the gardener, "'See, this is the third year I have come to look for fruit on this fig-tree and cannot find any. Cut it down. Why should so much ground be actually wasted?'

"But the gardener pleaded, "'Leave it, Sir, this year also, till I have dug round it and manured it.

If after that it bears fruit, well and good; if it does not, then you shall cut it down.'"

who in ancient times had been disobedient, while God's longsuffering was patiently waiting in the days of Noah during the building of the Ark, in which a few persons--eight in number--were brought safely through the water.