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 to Pharaoh: "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

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

Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that God's kindness leads you to repentance?

But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.

Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.

The Lord works everything for its own ends -- even the wicked for the day of disaster.

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

Endured

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

When you did these things, I was silent, so you thought I was exactly like you. But now I will condemn you and state my case against you!

When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.

(Khet) The Lord's loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.

after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.

For certain men have secretly slipped in among you -- men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe -- ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.

The vessels

Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now in a wealthy home there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also ones made of wood and of clay, and some are for honorable use, but others for ignoble use.

Fitted

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."

By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.

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