Thematic Bible: Delayed Penalty
Thematic Bible
delayed Penalty » Sin's penalty sometimes delayed
who in ancient times had been disobedient, while God's longsuffering was patiently waiting in the days of Noah during the building of the Ark, in which a few persons--eight in number--were brought safely through the water.
Verse Concepts
So he said to the gardener, "'See, this is the third year I have come to look for fruit on this fig-tree and cannot find any. Cut it down. Why should so much ground be actually wasted?' "But the gardener pleaded, "'Leave it, Sir, this year also, till I have dug round it and manured it.
If after that it bears fruit, well and good; if it does not, then you shall cut it down.'"
Verse Concepts
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