²² What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering ^(A)the vessels of wrath ^(B)prepared for destruction,

⁴ For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord ^[a]God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁸ and

^(B)They stumble, being disobedient to the word, ^(C)to which they also were appointed.

²¹ Does not the ^(A)potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make ^(B)one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

²⁰ But in a great house there are not only ^(A)vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.

¹⁶ But indeed for ^(A)this purpose I have raised you up, that I may ^(B)show My power in you, and that My ^(C)name may be declared in all the earth.

^16 (A)forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always ^(B)to fill up the measure of their sins; ^(C)but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

¹⁷ For ^(A)the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, ^(B)“For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”

³ By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction ^[a]does not slumber.