²⁶ With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.

³⁴ Surely he scoffeth at the scoffers; But he giveth grace unto the lowly.

²³ And if by these things ye will not be reformed unto me, but will walk contrary unto me;

²⁴ then will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your sins.

²⁷ And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

²⁸ then I will walk contrary unto you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.

¹⁷ Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

¹⁸ He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.

¹⁹ Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

⁴ Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

⁵ but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

⁶ who will render to every man according to his works:

⁹ tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

¹³ For judgment `is' without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.