In ver. 22 of the same chapter the NASB must be found guilty of deliberate alteration of the sense of the original. The AV reads, "What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction." NKJV, NIV, and ESV all retain the same sense more or less, only weakening "willing" to "wanting," "desiring," and "choosing," the latter of these three words being the only one which retains the idea of positive volition. The NASB, however, reads as follows: "What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?" This rendering suggests that God has engaged in the activity of longsuffering contrary to the specific purpose of demonstrating His wrath. What a difference the alteration or addition of one word can make!

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