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

Bible References

Willing

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you?

The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

calling to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

Endured

And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?

These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;

because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne.

The vessels

Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?

For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

Fitted

And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."

by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved--so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!

and "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense."They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.