8 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

When, therefore, he heard that he was sick, he continued in the place where he was two days.

Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died;

Wait patiently therefore, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and is of long patience, till he receives the autumnal and vernal rain.

The Lord is not slow in respect to his promise, as some men account slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a change of mind.

And he said to his vine dresser, Behold, I have come three years seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none; cut it down; why should it make the ground unproductive?

And he answered and said to him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I dig about it, and put on manure;

and if it bears fruit, well; but if not, at a future time you shall cut it down.

who were formerly disobedient when the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is eight souls, were saved by water.