⁴ Yahweh has made everything for its own end-- Yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

²² What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,

²¹ the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

⁸ and, "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, whereunto also they were appointed.

⁷ everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.

³⁶ For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

⁹ the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

¹¹ "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One,{TR omits "and God, the Holy One,"} to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!"

³⁰ That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

³ In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.