7 Bible Verses about Longsuffering Of God
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Regard our Lord's longsuffering as salvation; even as our dear brother Paul also wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him.
"But the gardener answered him. 'Lord, let it alone this year also, till I have dug around it, and fertilized it.
Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long patience? Do you not know that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance?
The Lord does not loiter over his promise, as some men esteem loitering; but he is longsuffering toward you, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should pass on to repentance.
For God openly set him forth for himself as an offering of atonement through faith, by means of his blood, in order to show forth his righteousness??ince in his forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed??o show forth his righteousness,
But what if God, while intending to show forth his wrath, and to make known his power, yet endured, with much long-suffering, vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction?
who in old times had been disobedient, when God's longsuffering was waiting in the days of Noah, while an ark was building, in which a few persons??ight in number??ere saved by water.)
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Longsuffering Of God » The wicked » Punished for despising
In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed.
But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, 'My Master is a long time in coming,' and if he begins to beat his fellow slaves, and to eat or drink with the drunkards, on a day when he is not expecting him, and at an hour which he does not know, the Master of that servant will arrive read more.
and will scourge him severely, and allot him a place among hypocrites, where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Longsuffering Of God » Is part of his character
Longsuffering Of God » The wicked » Abuse
But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, 'My Master is a long time in coming,' and if he begins to beat his fellow slaves, and to eat or drink with the drunkards,
Longsuffering Of God » Exercised toward » His people
Longsuffering Of God » Limits set to
Longsuffering Of God » Exercised toward » The wicked
But what if God, while intending to show forth his wrath, and to make known his power, yet endured, with much long-suffering, vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction?
who in old times had been disobedient, when God's longsuffering was waiting in the days of Noah, while an ark was building, in which a few persons??ight in number??ere saved by water.)
Longsuffering Of God » Exemplified
Longsuffering Of God » Should lead to repentance
The Lord does not loiter over his promise, as some men esteem loitering; but he is longsuffering toward you, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should pass on to repentance.
Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long patience? Do you not know that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance?
Longsuffering Of God » Exemplified » Manasseh
Longsuffering Of God » Illustrated
"If after that it bears fruit, well and good; but if not you shall cut it down.'"
Then he gave them this parable. "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came to look for fruit on it, but found none.
Longsuffering Of God » Exemplified » Paul
Yet for this very cause I obtained mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might display all his boundless patience as an illustration for those who should later believe in him, and so gain life eternal.
Longsuffering Of God » Plead, in prayer
Longsuffering Of God » Salvation, the object of
Regard our Lord's longsuffering as salvation; even as our dear brother Paul also wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him.
Longsuffering Of God » Exhibited in forgiving sins
For God openly set him forth for himself as an offering of atonement through faith, by means of his blood, in order to show forth his righteousness??ince in his forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed??o show forth his righteousness,
Longsuffering Of God » The wicked » Despise
Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long patience? Do you not know that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance?
Longsuffering Of God » An encouragement to repent
Longsuffering Of God » Through Christ's intercession
"But the gardener answered him. 'Lord, let it alone this year also, till I have dug around it, and fertilized it.
Repentance » We should be led to, by » Longsuffering Of God
who in old times had been disobedient, when God's longsuffering was waiting in the days of Noah, while an ark was building, in which a few persons??ight in number??ere saved by water.)
The Lord does not loiter over his promise, as some men esteem loitering; but he is longsuffering toward you, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should pass on to repentance.
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- God Is Gracious
- God Showed Mercy
- God Waiting