THEOSISProverbs 16:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The Lord hath made all things for himself: the wicked also for the evil day.
כֹּ֤ל פָּעַ֣ל יְ֭הוָה לַֽמַּעֲנֵ֑הוּ וְגַם־רָ֝שָׁ֗ע לְי֣וֹם רָעָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Rom 9:22What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,
- 2 Pet 2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented:
- Isa 43:21This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew forth my praise.
- Isa 43:7And every one that calleth upon my name, I have created him for my glory. I have formed him, and made him.
- 1 Pet 2:8And a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal, to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set.
- Job 21:30Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.
- 2 Pet 2:3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not.
- Rom 11:36For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.