Romans 9:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

Willing

Revelation 6:16

Endured

The vessels

Romans 9:21

1 Thessalonians 5:9

2 Timothy 2:20

Fitted

Jude 1:4

Bible References

Willing

For the Scripture tells Pharaoh:

I raised you up for this reason
so that I may display My power in you
and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth,

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

However, I have let you live for this purpose: to show you My power and to make My name known in all the earth.

Who understands the power of Your anger?
Your wrath matches the fear that is due You.

The Lord has prepared everything for His purpose—
even the wicked for the day of disaster.

And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,

Endured

The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people despise Me? How long will they not trust in Me despite all the signs I have performed among them?

You have done these things, and I kept silent;
you thought I was just like you.
But I will rebuke you
and lay out the case before you.

Because the sentence against a criminal act is not carried out quickly, the heart of people is filled with the desire to commit crime.

ח KhetBecause of the Lord’s faithful love
we do not perish,
for His mercies never end.

who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people

—were saved through water.

They will exploit you in their greed with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

Dear friends, don’t let this one thing escape you: With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

For some men, who were designated for this judgment long ago, have come in by stealth; they are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into promiscuity and denying Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.

When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the people slaughtered because of God’s word and the testimony they had.

The vessels

Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver bowls, but also those of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable.

Fitted

In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”

You, therefore, testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are always completing the number of their sins, and wrath has overtaken them at last.

and

A stone to stumble over,

and a rock to trip over.

They stumble because they disobey the message; they were destined for this.