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

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概要

  • 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 wedges “take courage” between two commands to wait, treating waiting as a cost in nerve rather than patience.
  • 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 names the exact shape of the frustration: eternity in the heart, and no way to see the whole of it.

Greek has two words for time and the New Testament uses both in one sentence about this. Chronos is duration — hours, years, the thing a clock measures. Kairos is the right moment, the opening, the point at which a thing can be done. When the disciples ask Jesus whether the kingdom is being restored now, he answers that it is not for them to know the times or the seasons, and he uses both words. Waiting, in Scripture, is…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

Chronos および カイロス 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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