8 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

However, when he heard that he was ill,

Then Martha said to Jesus. "Master, had you been here my brother would not have died;

Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains.

The Lord does not loiter over his promise, as some men esteem loitering; but he is longsuffering toward you, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should pass on to repentance.

So he said to the gardener. "'See, for years I have come looking for fruit on this tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why should it actually cumber the ground?'

"But the gardener answered him. 'Lord, let it alone this year also, till I have dug around it, and fertilized it.

"If after that it bears fruit, well and good; but if not you shall cut it down.'"

who in old times had been disobedient, when God's longsuffering was waiting in the days of Noah, while an ark was building, in which a few persons??ight in number??ere saved by water.)