Catholic Public Domain Version
"What if God, wanting to reveal his wrath and to make his power known, endured, with much patience, vessels deserving wrath, fit to be destroyed, "
— Romans 9:22, Catholic Public Domain 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:”
“What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction: ”
“What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,”
“But 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?”
“What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,”
“What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:”
“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:”
And so, you would say to me: “Then why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”
O man, who are you to question God? How can the thing that has been formed say to the One who formed him: “Why have you made me this way?”
And does not the potter have the authority over the clay to make, from the same material, indeed, one vessel unto honor, yet truly another unto disgrace?
What if God, wanting to reveal his wrath and to make his power known, endured, with much patience, vessels deserving wrath, fit to be destroyed,
so that he might reveal the wealth of his glory, within these vessels of mercy, which he has prepared unto glory?
And so it is with those of us whom he has also called, not only from among the Jews, but even from among the Gentiles,
just as he says in Hosea: “I will call those who were not my people, ‘my people,’ and she who was not beloved, ‘beloved,’ and she who had not obtained mercy, ‘one who has obtained mercy.’