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

Endured

Revelation 6:9

The vessels

Romans 9:21

1 Thessalonians 5:9

2 Timothy 2:20

Fitted

Bible References

Willing

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same cause I raised you up, to show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth.

FOR the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and wickedness of men who hold the truth in wickedness,

or do you despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to a change of mind?

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

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

and with covetousness they will make a gain of you with feigned words, whose judgment a long time lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

But let not this one thing escape you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

For some men have come in by deception, who were of old appointed to this judgment, impious, changing the grace of our God into lewdness, and denying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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

The vessels

or has not the potter a right, in respect to the clay, to make of the same mass one vessel to honor and another to 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 silver, but those also of wood and clay, and some for honor and some for dishonor;

Fitted

So that you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets;

forbidding us to speak to the gentiles that they may be saved, that they may fill up their sins always; and the wrath has come on them to the utmost.

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

For some men have come in by deception, who were of old appointed to this judgment, impious, changing the grace of our God into lewdness, and denying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.