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 away. My salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel.

The vision is yet for the appointed time. It moves quickly to the end. It will not lie! If it delays, wait for it for it will surely come. It will not be late!

Should God avenge his chosen that cry to him day and night, and yet he is longsuffering over them?

In just a little while, he who is coming will come. He will not delay!

But is

Consider the patience of our Lord as salvation. Just as our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you.

Jehovah then passed in front of him and called out: I, Jehovah, am a God who is full of compassion and pity. I am not easily angered and show great love and faithfulness.

But you, O Jehovah, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient, always faithful and ready to forgive.

Jehovah is waiting to be kind to you. He rises to have compassion on you. Jehovah is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

If God decided to show his wrath and make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fit for destruction.

For this I obtained mercy, which in me as the foremost sinner Jesus Christ might show his long-suffering. This is for an example to those who should later believe in him for eternal life.

They were disobedient while the ark was being built. Yet God waited patiently in the days of Noah. But few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.

Not willing

If you do this, as God commands, you will not wear yourself out. All these people can go home with their disputes settled.

Will you forgive their sin? If not, please wipe me out of the book you have written.

Jehovah would speak with Moses in person (intimately) (face to face) just as someone speaks with a friend. Moses would then return to the camp. But the young man who was his helper, Joshua son of Nun, stayed in the Tent.

But that

Do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and long-suffering? Do you not know that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

It is God's desire that all men have salvation and come to the full (precise) (accurate) (correct) knowledge (Greek: epignosis: recognition, discernment) of the truth.

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

General references

The mountains jumped like rams. The hills jumped like lambs.

I did not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.