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Romans 2:4
Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
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2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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Library

The Hindrances to Mourning
... the most part only for fear lest they should sink the ... The sinner thinks thus: God
has spared me all this while; he has eked out patience into longsuffering ...
/.../the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/9 the hindrances to mourning.htm

Misused Respite
... suffering goodness,' and never suffer it to 'lead them to ... as deep a mystery as is
God's loving patience. ... failure of His love to win, God should still persevere ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/misused respite.htm

God Willing that all Men Should be Saved.
... and we pine away in them, how should we then ... time, and continued obstinate, till
the divine patience was exhausted ... God operates indeed on man; but only as on a ...
/.../lee/sermons on various important subjects/sermon xvii god willing that.htm

On those Attributes of God which have Some Analogy to the Moral ...
... Patience is that by which he patiently endures the absence of ... Long suffering is a
virtue by which God suspends his anger, lest it should instantly hasten ...
/.../the works of james arminius vol 2/disputation xxi on those attributes.htm

God's Love for a Sinning World
... In God's case, these are not unfortunate children, but ... But oh, His amazing
patience"so set upon their ... being exceedingly careful lest anything should occur to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/finney/sermons on gospel themes/i gods love for a.htm

Of the Remedy for the Second Source of Weariness.
... of patience with pity, inasmuch as also the "patience of God ... back and declines to
be cured, we should comfort ourselves ... "For the foundation of God standeth sure ...
/.../on the catechising of the uninstructed/chapter 11 of the remedy for.htm

Earnest Expostulation
... this truth or not, I would remind you that God's patience with you ... Do you not think
that all this should encourage you to repent, since God himself leads ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 29 1883/earnest expostulation.htm

How Much God Desires we Should Love Him.
... he, the riches of his goodness, and patience, and long ... and plenteous sufficiency
of means which God freely bestows ... be saved; not willing that any should perish. ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter viii how much god.htm

Of Bearing the Cross --One Branch of Self-Denial.
... And yet the exhortation to patience is not to be founded ... we are chastened of the
Lord, that we should not be ... God dooms us to destruction, if he does not, by ...
/.../sergieff/on the christian life/chapter iii of bearing the.htm

Of Bearing the Cross --One Branch of Self-Denial.
... And yet the exhortation to patience is not to be founded ... we are chastened of the
Lord, that we should not be ... God dooms us to destruction, if he does not, by ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 8 of bearing the.htm

Subtopics

Long-suffering

The Patience of God is Part of his Character

The Patience of God: An Encouragement to Repent

The Patience of God: Exercised Toward: His People

The Patience of God: Exercised Toward: The Wicked

The Patience of God: Exhibited in Forgiving Sins

The Patience of God: Illustrated

The Patience of God: Israel

The Patience of God: Jerusalem

The Patience of God: Limits Set To

The Patience of God: Manasseh