Thematic Bible: Delayed Penalty
Thematic Bible
delayed Penalty » Sin's penalty sometimes delayed
Your descendants will return here in the fourth generation, since the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet run its course."
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I defer my anger for my name's sake, and as my first act I'm restraining it for you, so as not to cut you off.
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who disobeyed long ago in the days of Noah, when God waited patiently while the ark was being built. In it a few, that is, eight persons, were saved by water.
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"Have you noticed that Ahab has humbled himself in my presence? Because he has humbled himself in my presence, I will not bring his evil to harvest during his lifetime, but I will bring evil to his household during his son's lifetime."
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I'm not going to do this during your lifetime, for the sake of your father David, but I will tear it out of your son's control.
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but the LORD showed grace to them, displayed his compassion toward them, and turned to them due to his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He would not destroy them or evict them from his presence up until that time.
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Whenever a sentence for a crime is not carried out swiftly, the human mind becomes determined to commit evil.
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So he told the gardener, "Look here! For three years I've been coming to look for fruit on this tree but I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it waste the soil?' But the gardener replied, "Sir, leave it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
Maybe next year it will bear fruit. If not, then cut it down.'"
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Related Topics
- Acceptance, From God
- Amorites
- Baptism, significance of
- Bearing Fruit
- Before The Flood
- Completion
- Covenant, God's with Noah
- Divine Delays
- Divine Favour
- Driven From God's Presence
- Eight People
- Exercise
- Felling Trees
- Few People
- For The Sake Of God's People
- Forbearance
- Forbearance Of God
- Fourth
- Fractions, One Fourth
- God Is Gracious
- God Of The Fathers
- God Waiting
- God Will Bring Harm
- God's Covenant With The Patriarchs
- God's attitude towards people
- God, Patience Of
- Humble Yourself
- Humbling Oneself
- Humility
- Incomplete Works
- Longsuffering Of God
- Noah
- Olive Trees
- Punishment
- Punishment of the The Wicked
- Punishment, Delayed