If anyone says anything to you, you should say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and without delay the owner will send them [with you].”

And will not [our just] God defend and avenge His elect [His chosen ones] who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay [in providing justice] on their behalf?

[if God is glorified in Him,] God will also glorify Him (the Son) in Himself, and will glorify Him at once.

Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, urging him, “Come to us without delay.”

Now, why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name [for salvation].’

So after they arrived together here, I did not delay, but on the next day took my place on the tribunal and ordered that the man be brought before me.

For the Lord will execute His word upon the earth [He will conclude His dealings with mankind] completely and without delay.”

For yet in a very little while,
He who is coming will come, and will not delay.

The Lord does not delay [as though He were unable to act] and is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is [extraordinarily] patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

and swore [an oath] by [the name of] Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there will be delay no longer,