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

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

And indeed for this very cause have I raised you up, to show in you my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.

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

And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

Endured

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

These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself: but I will rebuke you, and set them in order before your eyes.

Because 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.

It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

Who formerly were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, by which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water.

And through covetousness shall they with false words exploit you: whose judgment of old now lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

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

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for 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 honor, and another unto dishonor?

For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation 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 earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.

Fitted

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

Therefore you are witnesses unto yourselves, that you are the children of them who killed the prophets.

Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

And, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them who stumble at the word, being disobedient: to which also they were appointed.