Long-Suffering of God, The

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• Genesis 6:3Torrey Limits set to

  And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

• Exodus 34:6Torrey Is part of his character

  And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

• Numbers 14:18Torrey Is part of his character

  The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

• 2 Chronicles 33:10–13Torrey Exemplified — Manasseh

  And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken. ¶ Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to…

• Nehemiah 9:30Torrey THE WICKED — Punished for despising

  Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.

• Psalms 78:38Torrey Exemplified — Israel

  But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

• Psalms 86:15Torrey Is part of his character

  But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

• Ecclesiastes 8:11Torrey THE WICKED — Abuse

  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.

• Isaiah 30:18Torrey EXERCISED TOWARD — His people

  ¶ And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

• Isaiah 48:9Torrey Exemplified — Israel

  ¶ For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

• Jeremiah 15:15Torrey Plead in prayer

  ¶ O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

• Jeremiah 44:22Torrey Limits set to

  So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.