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 says about Pharaoh, "I have raised you up for this very purpose, to demonstrate my power through you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

For God's wrath is being revealed from heaven against all the ungodliness and wickedness of those who in their wickedness suppress the truth.

Or are you unaware of his rich kindness, forbearance, and patience, that it is God's kindness that is leading you to repent?

However, I've kept you standing in order to show you my power and to declare my name in all the earth.

Who can know the intensity of your anger? Because our fear of you matches your wrath,

The LORD made everything answerable to him, including the wicked at the time of trouble.

They told the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb.

Endured

Suddenly, the glory of the LORD appeared at the Tent of Meeting to all of the Israelis. "How long will this people keep on spurning me and refusing to trust me, despite all the miracles that I've done among them?" the LORD asked Moses.

These things you did, and I kept silent, because you assumed that I was like you. But now I am going to rebuke you, and I will set forth my case before your very own eyes."

Whenever a sentence for a crime is not carried out swiftly, the human mind becomes determined to commit evil.

Because of the LORD's gracious love we are not consumed, since his compassions never end.

who disobeyed long ago in the days of Noah, when God waited patiently while the ark was being built. In it a few, that is, eight persons, were saved by water.

In their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. The ancient verdict against them is still in force, and their destruction is not delayed.

Don't forget this fact, dear friends: With the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.

For some people have slipped in among you unnoticed. They were written about long ago as being deserving of this condemnation because they are ungodly. They turn the grace of our God into uncontrollable lust and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus the Messiah.

When the lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and the testimony they had given.

The vessels

A potter has the right to do what he wants to with his clay, doesn't he? He can make something for a special occasion or something for ordinary use from the same lump of clay.

For God has not destined us to receive wrath but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,

In a large house there are not only utensils made of gold and silver, but also those made of wood and clay. Some are for special use, while others are for ordinary use.

Fitted

Your descendants will return here in the fourth generation, since the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet run its course."

Therefore, you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

as they try to keep us from telling the gentiles how they can be saved. As a result, they are constantly adding to the number of sins they have committed. However, wrath has overtaken them at last!

a stone they stumble over and a rock they trip on." They keep on stumbling because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.