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The Lord is not slow to fulfill His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.

Chapter Outline

1. He assures them of the certainty of Christ's coming to judgment;
8. warning the godly, for the long patience of God, to hasten their repentance.
10. He describes also the manner how the world shall be destroyed;
11. exhorting them to all holiness of life;
16. and again to think the patience of God to tend to their salvation, as Paul wrote to them in his epistles.

Timeline

67 AD

Peter Writes his Second Letter

People

Places

Asia, Cappadocia, Galatia, Pontus

Topics

Account, Anyone, Bears, Counselling, Count, Delay, Desire, Desiring, Destruction, Evil, Forbearing, Fulfilling, Keeping, Longsuffering, Long-suffering, Lost, Mercy, Pass, Patient, Patiently, Perish, Promise, Reach, Reformation, Regard, Repentance, Seems, Sense, Slack, Slackness, Slow, Slowness, Speak, Towards, Understand, Us-ward, Waiting, Wanting, Willing, Wishing, You-ward

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Parallel Verses

NASB: The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

KJV: The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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