Romans 9:23

just in order to make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,

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In The King James Version

And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

In Context

22What if God, wishing to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

24even us whom He called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

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Cross References

Luke 1:17in fact he himself will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of fathers to children’ and the disobedient to the mindset of the righteous, to prepare a people made ready for the Lord.”

Romans 5:20However, law came on the scene so that the offense might abound; but where the sin abounded, the grace superabounded,

Ephesians 1:6to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He graced us in the Beloved;

Ephesians 2:3among whom all of us also used to conduct ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, just like the rest.

Ephesians 2:10You see, we are His ‘poem’, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance in order that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 3:16that He[F] may grant you, according to the riches of His glory: 1) to be strengthened with power by His Spirit in the inner man;

Matthew Henry on Romans 9:15-25

The Divine Sovereignty. ( a. d. 58.) 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the… Read the whole commentary →

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