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:
The vessels
Bible References
Willing
Romans 9:17
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you to your position for this very purpose of displaying my power in dealing with you, of announcing my name all over the earth."
Romans 1:18
For God's anger from heaven is being uncovered against all the impiety and wickedness of the men who in their wickedness are suppressing the truth;
Romans 2:4
Do you think so little of the riches of God's kindness, forbearance, and patience, not conscious that His kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
Revelation 6:16
And they said to the mountains and the rocks: "Fall on us and conceal us from the sight of Him who is seated on the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb,
Endured
1 Peter 3:20
who had once been disobedient, while God's patience was awaiting in the days when Noah was preparing an ark, in which a few people-- eight, to be exact -- were brought safely through the water.
2 Peter 2:3
In their greed they will exploit you with messages manufactured by themselves. From of old their condemnation has not been idle and their destruction has not been slumbering.
2 Peter 3:8
But you must avoid forgetting this one fact, dearly beloved, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a single day.
Jude 1:4
For certain persons have sneaked in -- their doom was written down long ago -- godless persons, who turn the favor of our God into an excuse for licentiousness, and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Revelation 6:9
When He broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered for being faithful to God's message and for the testimony they bore to it.
The vessels
Romans 9:21
Has not the potter the right with his clay to make of the same lump one vessel for ornamental purposes, another for degrading service?
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God appointed us not to reap His wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Timothy 2:20
In any great house there are not only gold and silver articles but also wooden utensils, some for honorable uses and some for lowly uses.
Fitted
Matthew 23:31
So you are witnessing against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
by trying to keep us from speaking to the heathen, so that they may be saved, so as always to fill to the brim the cup of their sins. But at last God's wrath has come upon them.
1 Peter 2:8
and: "A stone for them to stumble over and a rock to trip them up." They keep on stumbling over the message, because they are disobedient to it, and this is their appointed doom.
Jude 1:4
For certain persons have sneaked in -- their doom was written down long ago -- godless persons, who turn the favor of our God into an excuse for licentiousness, and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.