8 Bible Verses about Divine Delays

Therefore when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed indeed two days in the place where He was:

And Martha said unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

Wait patiently therefore, my brethren, till the coming of the Lord: behold the husbandman expecteth the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it, till he receive the former and the latter rain.

The Lord is not slow as to his promise (as some count it slowness) but is long-suffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

And he said to the vine-dresser, behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none: cut it down, why should it cumber the ground?

And he said to him, Sir, let it alone this year also, till I dig about it, and lay dung to it:

then perhaps it may bear fruit; if not, afterwards cut it down.

who of old were disobedient, when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing; wherein a few, that is eight souls, were saved by water.