Thematic Bible: Sin's penalty sometimes delayed
Thematic Bible
delayed Penalty » Sin's penalty sometimes delayed
Then in the fourth generation your descendants shall return here [to Canaan, the land of promise], for the wickedness and guilt of the Amorites is not yet complete (finished).”
Verse Concepts
“For the sake of My Name I refrain from My wrath,
And for My praise I restrain Myself from you,
So that I do not cut you off.
who once were disobedient, when the great patience of God was waiting in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons [Noah’s family], were brought safely through the water.
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“Do you see how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the evil (catastrophe) in his lifetime, but in his son’s days I will bring evil upon his house.”
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However, I will not do it in your lifetime, for the sake of your father David, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son (Rehoboam).
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But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them and turned toward them for the sake of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and He was unwilling to destroy them, and did not cast them from His presence until now.
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Because the sentence against an evil act is not executed quickly, the hearts of the sons of men are fully set to do evil.
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So he said to the vinedresser, See here! For these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue also to use up the ground [to deplete the soil, intercept the sun, and take up room]? But he replied to him, Leave it alone, sir, [just] this one more year, till I dig around it and put manure [on the soil].
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