Devine Scripture

2 Peter 3:9

2 Peter chapter 3 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Context

v.8But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

v.9This passage

v.10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hebrews 10:37

    For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.

  • Revelation 2:21

    And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.

  • 1 Timothy 1:16

    howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me as chief might Jesus Christ show forth all his longsuffering, for an ensample of them that should thereafter believe on him unto eternal life.

  • 1 Peter 3:20

    that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

  • Exodus 18:23

    If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.

  • Romans 9:22

    What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction: