8 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

But when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed over for two days in the place where He was.

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

So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer keeps on waiting and waiting for the precious crop from his land; how he keeps up his patience over it until he gets the early and late rains,

The Lord is not slow about His promise, in the sense in which some think of slowness, but He is really dealing patiently with you, because He is not willing for any to perish but for all to have an opportunity to repent?

So he said to the vine-dresser, 'Look here! for three years I have been coming to look for figs on this fig tree, and have not found any. Cut it down. Why waste the ground with it?'

But he answered, 'Leave it, sir, just one more year, till I dig around it and manure it.

If it bears figs in the future, well; but if not, you will have to cut it down.'"

who had once been disobedient, while God's patience was awaiting in the days when Noah was preparing an ark, in which a few people-- eight, to be exact -- were brought safely through the water.