Romans 9:22 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 9:22

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?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:

KJV

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:

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

What if God, willing to show his wrath,.... The apostle proceeds to clear God from any charge of cruelty and unmercifulness, by observing his conduct in time, both towards those he passes by, and towards those he chooses; for in this and the following verse, nothing is said relating to any act of God before time, everything of that kind being considered already.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The spring of all the joy and glory of heaven is that mercy of God which endures for ever. Vessels of honour must to eternity own themselves vessels of mercy. Observe, First, What he designs in them: To make known the riches of his glory, that is, of his goodness; for God's goodness is his greatest glory, especially when it is communicated with the greatest sovereignty.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

What if God, willing to show his wrath - The apostle refers here to the case of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, and to which he applies Jeremiah’s parable of the potter, and, from them, to the then state of the Jews.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Εἰ	Ei	What if	G1487 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
θέλων	thelōn	desiring	G2309 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
θεὸς	theos	God	G2316 →
ἐνδείξασθαι	endeixasthai	to show	G1731 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
ὀργὴν	orgēn	wrath	G3709 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
γνωρίσαι	gnōrisai	to make known	G1107 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
δυνατὸν	dunaton	power	G1415 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
ἤνεγκεν	ēnegken	bore	G5342 →
ἐν	en	with	G1722 →
πολλῇ	pollēa	much	G4183 →
μακροθυμίᾳ	makrothumia	patience	G3115 →
σκεύη	skeuē	[the] vessels	G4632 →
ὀργῆς	orgēs	of wrath	G3709 →
κατηρτισμένα	katērtismena	fitted	G2675 →
εἰς	eis	for	G1519 →
ἀπώλειαν,	apōleian	destruction,	G684 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jude 1:4
For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only…
leads to
- 2 Peter 2:1–3
  Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on…
- Galatians 2:4
  This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
- 2 Peter 2:10
  Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.
- Titus 1:15–16
  To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
Through
1 Peter 2:8
and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.
leads to
- Isaiah 8:14
  And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.
Through
2 Timothy 2:20
A large house contains not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay. Some indeed are for honorable use, but others are for common use.
leads to
- Romans 9:21–23
  Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
Through
Romans 9:21
Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
leads to
- Isaiah 64:8
  But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
Through
Proverbs 16:4
The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
leads to
- 2 Peter 2:9
  if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.