Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him."

This people 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 by Your will they exist and were created."

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

[What] if God, wanting to show [His] wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for 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 deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

[then] the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,