In your stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are simply storing up anger for yourself on the Day of anger, when the just doom of God is revealed.

Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;

Thus God has mercy on anyone just as he pleases, and he makes anyone stubborn just as he pleases.

Never revenge yourselves, beloved, but let the Wrath of God have its way; for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will exact a requital ??the Lord has said it. No,

and they were singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb ??"Great and marvellous are thy deeds, Lord God almighty! Just and true thy ways, O King of nations!

Then I heard the angel of the waters cry, "O holy One, who art and wast, just art thou in this thy sentence.

O heaven, rejoice over her! Saints, apostles, prophets, rejoice! For God has avenged you on her now."

I speak

(I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration.

Human arguments, you say? But does not Scripture urge the very same?

To take an illustration from human life, my brothers. Once a man's will is ratified, no one else annuls it or adds a codicil to it.