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 writing says to Pharaoh, That for this same have I raised thee up, so that I might show in thee my power, and so that my name might be announced in all the earth.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all profanation and injustice of men, of those detaining the truth in injustice;

Or the abundance of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering dos thou despise; not knowing that the goodness of God brings thee to repentance?

And yet for this I raised thee up in order to cause thee to see my strength; and for the sake of declaring my name in all the earth.

Who shall know the strength of thine anger? and according to thy fear, thy wrath.

Jehovah made all to his purpose, and also the unjust for the day of evil.

And they say to the mountains and rocks, Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him sitting upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

Endured

And Jehovah will say to Moses How long will this people reject me and how long will they not believe in me by all the signs which I did in the midst of them?

These things thou didst and I was silent; thou thoughtest, being, I shall be like to thee: I will reprove thee, and I will set it in order before thine eyes.

Because a decree was not done quickly upon an evil work, for this the heart of the sons of man was filled in them to do evil.

The mercies of Jehovah are that we were not consumed, for his compassions were not finished.

They having been once unbelieving, when the longsuffering of God waited in Noah's days, the ark being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.

And let not this one thing be unknown to you, dearly beloved, that one day with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

For certain men entered in by stealth, long ago written of beforehand for judgment, irreligious, having changed the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

The vessels

Or has not the potter power over the clay, of the same mixture truly to make one vessel for honour, and one for dishonour

For God set us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

And in a great house there is not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen; and some truly for honour, and some for dishonour.

Fitted

And the fourth generation they shall turn back hither: for the crime of the Amorite has not been completed till now.

Wherefore ye bear testimony to yourselves, that ye are the sons of those having slain the prophets.

Hindering us from speaking to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: and the wrath of God has come before upon them even to the end.

And a stone of stumble, and rock of offence, they disbelieving the word stumble: to which also they were set.