2 Peter 3:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Is not

But is

1 Peter 3:20

Not willing

Exodus 18:23

Exodus 32:32

Exodus 33:11

But that

Romans 2:4

1 Timothy 2:4

Revelation 2:21

General references

Psalm 114:4

Luke 5:32

Bible References

Is not

“I bring near My righteousness, it is not far off;
And My salvation will not delay.
And I will grant salvation in Zion,
And My glory for Israel.

“For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
For it will certainly come, it will not delay.

now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?

For yet in a very little while,

He who is coming will come, and will not delay.

But is

and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you,

Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;

But You, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.

Therefore the Lord

longs to be gracious to you,

And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
How blessed are all those who

long for Him.

What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.

Not willing

If you do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”

But now, if You will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out from Your book which You have written!”

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

But that

Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.

General references

The mountains skipped like rams,
The hills, like lambs.

I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”