What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn
and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appo
Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for c
A large house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. Some indeed are for honorable use
But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaim
hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full c
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and tha
Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to
In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remain
When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to y
‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no mea
And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in M
Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand year
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God
if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on
Consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few peo
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