Romans 9:22

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What if God, wishing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

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  • Prov 16:4 : 4 The Lord has made everything for its purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain people have secretly slipped in among you—those who were written about long ago as being destined for this condemnation. They are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into a license for immorality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • Rom 9:21 : 21 Does not the potter have the right over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
  • 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 and, 'a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.' They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were determined to do.
  • 2 Tim 2:20 : 20 In a large house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay; some are for honorable use and some for dishonorable.
  • Exod 9:16 : 16 But I have raised you up for this purpose: that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
  • Rom 9:17 : 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: 'I raised you up for this very purpose, so that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.'
  • 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 They forbid us to speak to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way, they constantly fill up the measure of their sins. But the wrath of God has come upon them fully.
  • Num 14:18 : 18 'The LORD is slow to anger, abundant in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and rebellion; yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers' iniquity upon the children to the third and fourth generation.'
  • Ps 50:21-22 : 21 These things you have done, and I kept silent; you thought I was like you. But I will rebuke you and lay the case before your eyes. 22 Consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver.
  • Ps 90:11 : 11 Who knows the power of your anger? For your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.
  • Eccl 8:11-12 : 11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do evil. 12 Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and lives a long time, I know that it will be well with those who fear God, who honor Him.
  • Matt 23:31-33 : 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your forefathers' sins! 33 You serpents, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell?
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
  • Num 14:11 : 11 The LORD said to Moses, "How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
  • 1 Thess 5:9 : 9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Gen 15:16 : 16 In the fourth generation, your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.
  • Rom 2:4-5 : 4 Or do you disrespect the riches of His kindness, forbearance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
  • 1 Pet 3:20 : 20 They were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it, only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water.
  • Rom 1:18 : 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness.
  • Lam 3:22 : 22 Because of the LORD’s steadfast love we are not consumed, for His mercies never end.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
  • 2 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 But do not let this one thing escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wanting any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
  • 2 Pet 3:15 : 15 And consider the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given to him.
  • Rev 6:9-9 : 9 When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. 10 They cried out with a loud voice, 'How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until You judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?' 11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to rest a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants and brothers were killed just as they had been.
  • Rev 6:16-17 : 16 And they said to the mountains and the rocks, 'Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!' 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?

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  • 23And what if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of mercy, whom he prepared beforehand for glory—

  • Rom 9:14-21
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    14What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!

    15For he says to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.'

    16So then, it does not depend on human desire or effort but on God’s mercy.

    17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: 'I raised you up for this very purpose, so that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.'

    18So then, he has mercy on whom he wills, and he hardens whom he wills.

    19You will say to me then, 'Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?'

    20But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its maker, 'Why have you made me like this?'

    21Does not the potter have the right over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?

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    4Or do you disrespect the riches of His kindness, forbearance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

    5But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

    6He will repay each person according to their deeds.

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    8In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

    9They will be punished with eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might.

  • Rom 2:8-9
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    8But to those who are self-seeking, who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and anger.

    9There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does what is evil, first for the Jew, then also for the Gentile.

  • 18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness.

  • 4But the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, so he remade it into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make.

  • 5But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust for bringing His wrath on us? (I am speaking in human terms.)

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    20In a large house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay; some are for honorable use and some for dishonorable.

    21If anyone cleanses themselves from the latter, they will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

  • 9The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wanting any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

  • 30That the wicked are spared in the day of calamity, that they are brought forth in the day of wrath?

  • Rom 11:21-22
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    21For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you either.

    22Consider then the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell but kindness to you, provided you continue in His kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.

  • 13God will not turn back His anger; even the helpers of Rahab bowed beneath Him.

  • 32For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that He may have mercy on them all.

  • 6Because of these things, the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

  • 5This is evidence of God's righteous judgment, so that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.

  • 16They forbid us to speak to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way, they constantly fill up the measure of their sins. But the wrath of God has come upon them fully.

  • 22It hurls itself against him without mercy; he flees desperately from its power.

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    5Then He speaks to them in His anger and terrifies them in His wrath:

  • 6And we are ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

  • 20For human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

  • 4For if God did not spare the angels who sinned but cast them into hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment,

  • 9Woe to those who strive with their Maker, like a piece of pottery among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?

  • 7But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

  • 31So I have poured out my indignation upon them, consumed them with the fire of my wrath, and brought their own ways down upon their heads, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • 19A person with great anger must bear the penalty; if you rescue them, you will have to do it again.

  • 12God is a righteous judge and a God who is angry every day.

  • 9Who knows? God may turn and relent and withdraw His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

  • 27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

  • 1A man who is often corrected but stubbornly stiffens his neck will be suddenly broken beyond healing.

  • 9then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

  • 20What credit is it if you sin and are beaten for it, and you endure? But if you do good and suffer for it, and you endure, this is commendable before God.

  • 11Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand,

  • 9Like a slug that melts away as it moves, like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.

  • 31This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are. Exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.

  • 5He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

  • 22As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out my wrath upon you.