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 saith of Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of men, who hold back the truth with injustice;

Or dost thou despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, ignoring that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?

For in truth I have placed thee to declare my power in thee, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

Who knows the power of thine anger? that thy wrath is not less than our fear.

The LORD has made all things by himself, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

and said to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that is seated upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb;

Endured

And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? How long will it be before they believe me, with all the signs which I have done among them?

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou didst think that I was altogether such a one as thyself, but I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes.

Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Chet It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed because his mercies never diminish.

which in the time past were disobedient, when once the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being made ready, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

and in covetousness they shall make merchandise of you with feigned words, upon whom the condemnation from a long time ago does not delay, and their perdition does not sleep.

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day.

For there are certain men crept in unawares without fear or reverence of God, who from beforehand have been ordained unto this condemnation, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying God who alone has dominion, and our Lord Jesus, the Christ.

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those that had been slain because of the word of God and for the testimony which they held:

The vessels

Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?

For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain saving health by our Lord Jesus Christ,

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay, and likewise some to honour, and some to dishonour.

Fitted

But in the fourth generation they shall come here again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Therefore ye are witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up the measure of their sins always, for the wrath of God has come upon them to the uttermost.

and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, even to those who stumble at the word, not obeying in that for which they were ordained.