'Delay' in the Bible

Come to terms without delay with your opponent while you are yet with him on the way to the court; for fear he should obtain judgement from the magistrate against you, and the magistrate should give you in custody to the officer and you be thrown into prison.

If anyone says anything to you, you should say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and without delay the owner will send them [with you].”

'And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come,

Without delay the one who had received the five talents went and employed them in business, and gained five more.

Now Simon's mother-in-law was ill in bed with a fever, and without delay they informed Him about her.

So without delay the king sent a soldier and ordered him to bring John's head. The soldier went and beheaded him in prison.

And if any one asks you, 'Why are you doing that?' say, 'The Master needs it, and will send it back here without delay.'"

The people were waiting for Zacharias, and were wondering at his delay in the temple.

'And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken;

Will not God grant justice to His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay to help them?

So they rose and without an hour's delay returned to Jerusalem, and found the Eleven and the rest met together, who said to them,

[if God is glorified in Him,] God will also glorify Him (the Son) in Himself, and will glorify Him at once.

And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.

And now, why delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name.’

But so that I may not delay you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness.

Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth.

For the Lord will execute His word upon the earth [He will conclude His dealings with mankind] completely and without delay.”

But, if the Lord is willing, I shall come to you without delay; and then I shall know not the fine speeches of these conceited people, but their power.

and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth thee to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth,

For yet in a very little while,the Coming One will come and not delay.

The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.

And now in loud voices they cried out, saying, "How long, O Sovereign Lord, the holy One and the true, dost Thou delay judgment and the taking of vengeance upon the inhabitants of the earth for our blood?"

He swore an oath by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: "There will be no more delay.

"There shall be no further delay; but in the days when the seventh angel blows his trumpet--when he begins to do so--then the secret purposes of God are realized, in accordance with the good news which He gave to His servants the Prophets."