Romans 9:23

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And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory–

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  • Rom 2:4 : 4 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?
  • Eph 3:16 : 16 I pray that according to the wealth of his glory he will grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,
  • 1 Pet 1:2-5 : 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by being set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with Jesus Christ’s blood. May grace and peace be yours in full measure! 3 New Birth to Joy and Holiness Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
  • 1 Chr 29:18 : 18 O LORD God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, always maintain these motives of your people and keep them devoted to you.
  • Luke 1:17 : 17 And he will go as forerunner before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.”
  • Col 1:12 : 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.
  • Col 1:27 : 27 God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
  • 1 Thess 5:9 : 9 For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Thess 1:10-12 : 10 when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired on that day among all who have believed– and you did in fact believe our testimony. 11 And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith, 12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 Call to Stand Firm But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. 14 He called you to this salvation through our gospel, so that you may possess the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Tim 2:21 : 21 So if someone cleanses himself of such behavior, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.
  • Titus 3:3-7 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another. 4 But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared, 5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior. 7 And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.”
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more, 21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 8:29 : 29 because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
  • Eph 1:6-8 : 6 to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of his grace 8 that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.
  • Eph 1:18 : 18 – since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened– so that you can know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
  • Eph 2:3-5 : 3 among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest… 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, 5 even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!–
  • Eph 2:7 : 7 to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
  • Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 To me– less than the least of all the saints– this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

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  • Rom 9:21-22
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    21Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

    22But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

  • Rom 9:15-19
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    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 exertion, but on God who shows mercy.

    17For 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.”

    18So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

    19You will say to me then,“Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”

  • Eph 1:8-9
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    8that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.

    9He did this when he revealed to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

  • Rom 9:24
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    24even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

  • Eph 2:7
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    7to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

  • Eph 1:4-6
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    4For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love.

    5He did this by predestining us to adoption as his legal heirs through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will–

    6to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

  • Rom 8:29-30
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    29because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

    30And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

  • Rom 15:9
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    9and thus the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,“Because of this I will confess you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to your name.”

  • Rom 11:30-32
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    30Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

    31so they too have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy.

    32For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all.

  • Eph 2:9-10
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    9it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

    10For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.

  • 2 Tim 1:9
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    9He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

  • Rom 9:11
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    11even before they were born or had done anything good or bad(so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)–

  • Eph 2:4
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    4But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

  • Eph 3:8-11
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    8To me– less than the least of all the saints– this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

    9and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan– the mystery that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

    10The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

    11This was according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

  • Eph 1:11-12
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    11In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

    12so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.

  • 1 Cor 1:28-29
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    28God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

    29so that no one can boast in his presence.

  • 1 Pet 2:10
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    10You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7An Eternal Weight of Glory But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

  • Col 1:27
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    27God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

  • 1 Tim 1:16
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    16But here is why I was treated with mercy: so that in me as the worst, Christ Jesus could demonstrate his utmost patience, as an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life.

  • Rom 2:4-5
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    4Or 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?

    5But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!

  • 2 Tim 2:20-21
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    20Now 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.

    21So if someone cleanses himself of such behavior, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

  • Rom 9:4
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    4who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

  • Acts 15:18
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    18known from long ago.

  • Acts 9:15
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    15But the Lord said to him,“Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel.

  • 2 Cor 3:10
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    10For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.

  • Titus 3:4
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    4But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,

  • 2 Cor 9:8
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    8And God is able to make all grace overflow to you so that because you have enough of everything in every way at all times, you will overflow in every good work.

  • 2 Cor 8:19
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    19In addition, this brother has also been chosen by the churches as our traveling companion as we administer this generous gift to the glory of the Lord himself and to show our readiness to help.

  • 1 Pet 1:20
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    20He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
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    31so that, as it is written,“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”