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.

For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just in the eyes of God, it is those who obey the Law who will be acquitted,

it was to demonstrate his justice at the present epoch, showing that God is just himself and that he justifies man on the score of faith in Jesus.

Just as David himself describes the bliss of the man who has righteousness counted to him by God apart from what he does ??7 Blessed are they whose breaches of the Law are forgiven, whose sins are covered!

Why, a man will hardly die for the just ??though one might bring oneself to die, if need be, for a good man.

Just as one man's disobedience made all the rest sinners, so one man's obedience will make all the rest righteous.

So the Law at any rate is holy, the command is holy, just, and for our good.

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