Long-Suffering of God, The

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• Exodus 34:6 OT

  Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

• Numbers 14:18 OT

  ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

• Psalms 86:15 OT

  But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

• 2 Peter 3:15 NT

  Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

• Luke 13:8 NT

  He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

• Romans 2:4 NT

  Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

• 2 Peter 3:9 NT

  The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

• Joel 2:13 OT

  Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

• Romans 3:25 NT

  whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

• Isaiah 30:18 OT

  Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

• Ezekiel 20:17 OT

  Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.

• Romans 9:22 NT

  What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

• 1 Peter 3:20 NT

  who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

• Jeremiah 15:15 OT

  Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

• Genesis 6:3 OT

  Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

• Jeremiah 44:22 OT

  Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is…

• Ecclesiastes 8:11 OT

  Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

• Matthew 24:48 NT

  But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’

• Matthew 24:49 NT

  and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

• Nehemiah 9:30 OT

  Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

• Matthew 24:48-51 NT

  But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it, and in…

• Romans 2:5 NT

  But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

• Luke 13:6 NT

  He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

• Luke 13:9 NT

  If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’ ”