For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:
though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;
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.
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote unto you;