Thematic Bible: Sin's penalty sometimes delayed
Thematic Bible
delayed Penalty » Sin's penalty sometimes delayed
who had once been disobedient, while God's patience was awaiting in the days when Noah was preparing an ark, in which a few people-- eight, to be exact -- were brought safely through the water.
Verse Concepts
So he said to the vine-dresser, 'Look here! for three years I have been coming to look for figs on this fig tree, and have not found any. Cut it down. Why waste the ground with it?' But he answered, 'Leave it, sir, just one more year, till I dig around it and manure it.
If it bears figs in the future, well; but if not, you will have to 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