(as it is written, "for thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter:")

And what if God, though resolved to shew his displeasure at last, and to make known his power, yet bore with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction?

and saith to Israel, "All the day long have I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people."

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be established:

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Are ye ignorant, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath power over a man, only so long as it liveth?