罗马书 8:26-39
8:26 况且，我们的软弱有圣灵帮助，我们本不晓得当怎样祷告，只是圣灵亲自用说不出来的叹息替我们祷告。
8:27 鉴察人心的，晓得圣灵的意思，因为圣灵照着 神的旨意替圣徒祈求。
8:28 我们晓得万事都互相效力，叫爱 神的人得益处，就是按他旨意被召的人。
8:29 因为他预先所知道的人，就预先定下效法他儿子的模样，使他儿子在许多弟兄中作长子。
8:30 预先所定下的人又召他们来；所召来的人又称他们为义；所称为义的人又叫他们得荣耀。
8:31 既是这样，还有什么说的呢？ 神若帮助我们，谁能敌挡我们呢？
8:32 神既不爱惜自己的儿子为我们众人舍了，岂不也把万物和他一同白白地赐给我们吗？
8:33 谁能控告 神所拣选的人呢？有 神称他们为义了（注：或作“是称他们为义的 神吗？”）。
8:34 谁能定他们的罪呢？有基督耶稣已经死了，而且从死里复活，现今在神的右边，也替我们祈求。（注：“有基督云云”，或作“是已经死了，而且从死里复活，现今在 神的右边，也替我们祈求的基督耶稣吗？”）
8:35 谁能使我们与基督的爱隔绝呢？难道是患难吗？是困苦吗？是逼迫吗？是饥饿吗？是赤身露体吗？是危险吗？是刀剑吗？
8:36 如经上所记：
“我们为你的缘故终日被杀，
人看我们如将宰的羊。”
8:37 然而，靠着爱我们的主，在这一切的事上已经得胜有余了。
8:38 因为我深信无论是死、是生，是天使、是掌权的，是有能的，是现在的事、是将来的事，
8:39 是高处的、是低处的，是别的受造之物，都不能叫我们与 神的爱隔绝；这爱是在我们的主基督耶稣里的。
彼得后书 3:9
主所应许的尚未成就，有人以为他是耽延，其实不是耽延，乃是宽容你们，不愿有一人沉沦，乃愿人人都悔改。
Romans 8:26-39 (NIV)
26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.
28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
29For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
30And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
31What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all–how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
34Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died–more than that, who was raised to life–is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
36As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Peter 3:9 (NIV)
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.