The LORD has made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
That the wicked are reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
And indeed for this very cause have I raised you up, to show in you my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though they join hand in hand, none shall be unpunished.
He has made every thing beautiful in its time: also he has put eternity in men’s hearts, so that no man can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end.
This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.
Even everyone that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.
What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
And, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them who stumble at the word, being disobedient: to which also they were appointed.
And through covetousness shall they with false words exploit you: whose judgment of old now lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.
The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for you have created all things, and for your pleasure they are and were created.