8 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

When, therefore, He heard that he was sick, He then abode two days in the place where He was.

Martha, therefore, said to Jesus, "Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother would not have died;

Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth; being patient over it, until it receives the early and latter rain.

The Lord is not slow respecting the promise, as some account slowness; but He is long-suffering toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

And he said to the vinedresser, 'Behold, these three years I come, seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none; cut it down; why does it also make the land useless?'

But he, answering, says to him, 'Lord, leave it this year also, until I dig about it, and cast in fertilizers.

And if, indeed, it bear fruit for the future, well; but, if not, you shall cut it down.'"

who were once disobedient, when the long-suffering of God was waiting in the days of Noah, while an ark was being prepared, entering into which, a few, that is, eight, souls were saved through water;