5 Bible Verses about Delay Of The Second Coming
Most Relevant Verses
Joel 2:13
Rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to Yahweh your God, because he [is] gracious and compassionate, {slow to anger} and great in loyal love, and relenting from harm.
Luke 15:20
And he set out [and] came to his own father. But [while] he was still a long way away, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran {and embraced him} and kissed him.
Romans 9:22
And [what] if God, wanting to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
2 Peter 3:9
Verse Concepts
Not DestroyedPromises respectingPromises concerningGod Gives RepentancePromisesBeing PatientpatientpatientsFeeling LostGod, Patience OfRepentanceRememberingDivine DelaysGod, Will OfGod Willing
Repentance, Importance OfGod, Faithfulness OfSalvation, Possible To All MenPunishment, DelayedRestraintevangelism, motivation forPatience As A Fruit Of The SpiritAge Of AccountabilityHesitationSin, And God's CharacterGod's attitude towards peopleGod Not DelayingGod's PromisesLongsuffering Of GodWaiting For God's Timing
The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider slowness, but is being patient toward you, [because he] does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance.