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"Why does God not punish the wicked and reward the righteous instantly"
📖 Related Verses (4)
2Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
Ecclesiastes 2:26 "For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind."
James 1:4 "But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing."
Matthew 13:28 ,28 "
The seeming delay of God's judgment upon the wicked is to preserve the righteous
The seeming delay of God's judgment is to ensure that the wicked work for the righteous