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

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

My righteousness is near, it is not far off; salvation will come quickly; and I will make Zion free, and give Israel my glory.

For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back.

And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.

But is

And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;

And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.

What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.

Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:

Not willing

If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace.

But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not, let my name be taken out of your book.

And the Lord had talk with Moses face to face, as a man may have talk with his friend. And when Moses came back to the tents, his servant, the young man Joshua, the son of Nun, did not come away from the Tent.

But that

Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

Whose desire is that all men may have salvation and come to the knowledge of what is true.

And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways.

General references

The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.

I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.