²⁶ With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

³⁴ Surely he mocks the mockers, But he gives grace to the humble.

²³ "'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;

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

²⁷ "'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

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

¹⁷ Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

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

¹⁹ Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, For the belt that is always around him.

⁴ Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

⁵ But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

⁶ who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"

⁹ oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, on the Jew first, and also on the Greek.

¹³ For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.