KJV dictionary & concordance
Patient restraint or holding back; delaying, withholding, or not immediately executing deserved judgment or demand.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Romans 2:4
Complete exact-word concordance
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodnesse, and forbearance, and long suffering, not knowing that the goodnes of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Whom God hath set forth to bee a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousnesse for the remission of sinnes, that are past, through the forbearance of God.
1611 marginal noteOr, foreordeined.
1611 marginal noteOr, passing ouer.
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