Romans 9:17

Scripture told Pharaoh that God raised him up to display his power and proclaim his name worldwide. Even a hardened opponent serves God's larger purposes.

Cross-references · 23

• Exod 9:16but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;
• Prov 16:4Yahweh has made everything for its own end — yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
• Exod 10:1–2Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them,
• Exod 14:17–18Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
• Esth 4:14For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
• Isa 45:1–3Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
• Isa 37:20Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”
• Josh 9:9They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,
• John 17:26I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
• 1 Sam 2:7–8Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
• Exod 15:14–15The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
• Gal 3:22But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
• 1 Sam 4:8Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
• Josh 2:9–10She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
• Ps 83:17–18Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
• Exod 18:10–11Jethro said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
• Gal 4:30However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”
• Isa 10:5–6Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
• Gal 3:8The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”
• Jer 27:6–7Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.
• Rom 11:4But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
• Dan 5:18–21You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
• Dan 4:22it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

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