8 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed on for two days in the place where he was,

Martha said to Jesus, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!

So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer has to wait for the precious crop from the ground, and be patient with it, until it gets the early and the late rains.

The Lord is not slow about his promise, in the sense that some men think; he is really showing his patience with you, because he does not want any to perish, but wishes all men to be brought to repentance.

And he said to the gardener, 'Here I have come three years to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'

He answered, 'Let it stand this one year more, sir, till I dig around it and manure it;

perhaps it will bear fruit next year. But if it does not, you can have it cut down.' "

who had once been disobedient, when in Noah's time God in his patience waited for the ark to be made ready, in which a few people, eight in all, were brought safely through the water.