But by your hardness and your impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

Therefore he has mercy on whom he wills, and he hardens the heart of whom he wills.

Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

and they sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the ages!

And I heard the angel of the waters say, "Righteous are you, who are and who were, O Holy One, because you judged these things;

Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced judgment for you against her!"

I speak

I am speaking in human terms, because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for holiness.

Do I say this merely from a human point of view? Does not the Law say the same thing?

To give a human example, brethren: even though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been ratified, no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it.