everyone who is called by My name; for I have created him for My glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

This people that I have formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise.

For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and through Your will they exist and were created.

For the wicked are reserved for the day of calamity; they shall be brought out on the day of wrath.

What if God, determining to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath rendered fit unto destruction,

and a Stone of stumbling and a Rock of offense. They stumble, being disobedient to the Word, to which they also were appointed.

By covetousness they will exploit you with well-turned words; whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust for the day of judgment, to be punished,