Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

Iniquity

If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.

But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.

For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

For his

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

Now if he has a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and in fear does not do the same:

So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.

He rewardeth

If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.

While I, though I am crowned king, have little strength, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are out of my control: may the Lord give to the evil-doer the reward of his evil-doing!

Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith.

For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he will give to every man the reward of his works.

Alexander the copper-worker did me much wrong: the Lord will give him the reward of his works:

Give to her as she gave, even an increased reward for her works; in the cup which was mixed by her, let there be mixed as much again for herself.

He shall

Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.

General references

The wrongdoing of Ephraim is shut up; his sin is put away in secret.