Thematic Bible: Sin's penalty sometimes delayed
Thematic Bible
delayed Penalty » Sin's penalty sometimes delayed
And the fourth generation shall return here, for the guilt of the Amorites {is not yet complete}."
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For the sake of my name I {refrain from} my anger, and [for] my praise I restrain [it] for you [so as] not to cut you off.
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who were formerly disobedient, when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, [while] an ark was being constructed, in which a few--that is, eight souls--were rescued through water.
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"Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring disaster in his days. I will bring the disaster on his house in the days of his son."
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However, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father; from the hand of your son I will tear it [away].
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But Yahweh had mercy on them and showed compassion to them and turned to them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He was not willing to destroy them nor cast them from his presence up to now.
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Because sentence against an evil deed is not carried out quickly, the heart of {humans} fills up within them to do evil.
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So he said to the gardener, 'Behold, {for three years} I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find [any]. Cut it down! Why should it even exhaust the soil?' But he answered [and] said to him, 'Sir, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put manure on [it].
And if indeed it produces fruit in the coming [year], [so much the better], but if not, you can 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