Romans 9:22

Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:

'Willing to show his wrath' -i.e. against sin, God isn't indifferent to sin! (Romans 1:18)

'Endured with much longsuffering' -'bore most patiently with' (TCNT); 'has tolerated most patiently' (Mof).

'But how can anyone accuse God of injustice in view of the way he actually has dealt with men? He had been patient and long-suffering toward his impenitent people, Israel..'

'Vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction' -ready, ripe for judgement. (Vincent p. 107) Perfected, made quite fit or ripe (2 Timothy 3:17) (Gr. Ex. N.T. p. 664)

Other Scriptures reveal that one ends up 'ripe for judgement', through their own foolish and selfish choices, and then only compounds such by refusing to repent. (Romans 2:4; Ephesians 2:1; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Timothy 2:19) Such was the case of Pharaoh, and such was to be the case of the unbelieving Jews (1 Thessalonians 2:15; Matthew 23:32)

'It might occur to the protesting Jew to make the point that God's longsuffering with the Jew proves God is still (and has always been) in favor with the Jew Paul is excluding. But longsuffering is to lead to repentance (Romans 2:4f; 2 Peter 3:9) and if that doesn't follow it only serves to highlight the JUSTNESS OF THE WRATH. (What. disgusting thing it would be to say: "Isn't God wonderful for enduring those he eternally predestined to damnation (i.e. vessels of wrath fitted for destruction?!)'