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2 Peter 3:9

2 Peter 3:9
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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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise,.... The Syriac version reads in the plural, "his promises", any of his promises; though the words seem rather to regard the particular promise of Christ's…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise - That is, it should not be inferred because His promise seems to be long delayed that therefore it will fail. When people, after a considerable lapse of…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

The Lord is not slack - They probably in their mocking said, "Either God had made no such promise to judge the world, destroy the earth, and send ungodly men to perdition; or if he had, he had…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Peter 3:9-10

We are here told that the Lord is not slack - he does not delay beyond the appointed time; as God kept the time that he had appointed for the delivering of Israel out of Egypt, to a day (Exo 12:41),…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness We enter here on the third answer, and it rests on the purpose which was working through what men looked on as a delay in the…