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The Lord Will Be Gracious

18 Therefore the Lord (A)waits to be gracious to you,
    and therefore he (B)exalts himself to show mercy to you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
    (C)blessed are all those who wait for him.

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(A)The Lord is not slow to fulfil his promise (B)as some count slowness, but (C)is patient towards you,[a] (D)not wishing that any should perish, but (E)that all should reach repentance.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 3:9 Some manuscripts on your account

15 And count (A)the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as (B)our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you (C)according to the wisdom given him,

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21 I gave her time to repent, but (A)she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

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