4. God has been kind to you. He has been very patient, waiting for you to change. But you think nothing of his kindness. Maybe you don’t understand that God is kind to you so that you will decide to change your lives.
5. But you are so stubborn! You refuse to change. So you are making your own punishment greater and greater. You will be punished on the day when God will show his anger. On that day everyone will see how right God is to judge people.
6. He will reward or punish everyone for what they have done.
7. Some people live for God’s glory, for honor, and for life that cannot be destroyed. They live for those things by always continuing to do good. God will give eternal life to them.
8. But others are selfish and refuse to follow truth. They follow evil. God will show his anger and punish them.
9. He will give trouble and suffering to everyone who does evil—to the Jews first and also to those who are not Jews.
10. But he will give glory, honor, and peace to everyone who does good—to the Jews first and also to those who are not Jews.
11. God judges everyone the same. It doesn’t matter who they are.
12. People who have the law and those who have never heard of the law are all the same when they sin. People who don’t have the law and are sinners will be lost. And, in the same way, those who have the law and are sinners will be judged by the law.
13. Hearing the law does not make people right with God. They will be right before him only if they always do what the law says.