18 Bible Verses on God’s Timing, and the Two Greek Words Behind Them

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Résumé

  • Greek has two words for time — duration and the right moment — and Jesus uses both when he refuses to give the disciples a schedule.
  • Habakkuk records God conceding the appearance of slowness inside his own promise: if it seems slow, wait for it.
  • Psalm 27:14 puts “take courage” between two commands to wait.
  • 2 Peter 3:8 runs in both directions — a thousand years is also a day — and was written to people who had decided the delay meant nothing was coming.
  • Ecclesiastes 3:11 says God has put eternity into the human heart, yet no one can find out the whole of what he has done.

The Bible teaches that God sets the times for what he does, and that people are often asked to wait without being told when. When the disciples asked whether the kingdom would be restored now, Jesus said, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority” (Acts 1:7). The two Greek words there are chronos, time as duration, and kairos, the right or appointed moment. The eighteen verses below cover…

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Bibliographie (cliquer pour afficher)

Les citations bibliques proviennent de la version English Standard Version.

Chronos et kairos appear together at Acts 1:7 and 1 Thessalonians 5:1.

Paul quotes Isaiah 49:8 at 2 Corinthians 6:2.

The fourteen pairs follow at Ecclesiastes 3:2-8.

The mercy Isaiah 55:8 is explaining is at Isaiah 55:7.

The complaint Peter is answering is at 2 Peter 3:3-4.

Paul’s argument in Athens continues at Acts 17:27.

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