Romans 9:22

What and if God would, to shewe his wrath, and to make his power knowen, suffer with long patience the vessels of wrath, prepared to destruction?

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

21Hath not the potter power of the clay to make of the same lumpe one vessell to honour, and another vnto dishonour?

23And that hee might declare the riches of his glory vpon the vessels of mercy, which hee hath prepared vnto glory?

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Cross References

Exodus 9:16And in deede, for this cause haue I appointed thee, to shewe my power in thee, and to declare my Name throughout all the world.

Numbers 14:18The Lord is slowe to anger, and of great mercie, and forgiuing iniquitie, and sinne, but not making the wicked innocent, and visiting the wickednes of the fathers vpon the children, in the thirde and fourth generation:

Psalms 90:11Who knoweth the power of thy wrath? for according to thy feare is thine anger.

Ecclesiastes 8:11Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to doe euill.

Matthew 23:31So then ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the children of them that murthered the Prophets.

Romans 2:4Or despisest thou the riches of his bountifulnesse, and patience, and long sufferance, not knowing that the bountifulnesse of God leadeth thee to repentance?

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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