²⁶ With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,

³⁴ If the scorners He doth scorn, Yet to the humble He doth give grace.

²³ `And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me `in' opposition,

²⁴ then I have walked -- I also -- with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins;

²⁷ `And if for this ye hearken not to Me, and have walked with Me in opposition,

²⁸ then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.

¹⁷ And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him.

¹⁸ And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.

¹⁹ It is to him as apparel -- he covereth himself, And for a continual girdle he girdeth it on.

⁴ or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? -- not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

⁵ but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

⁶ who shall render to each according to his works;

⁹ tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

¹³ for the judgment without kindness `is' to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.