23 then may you yourself hear from the heavens,+ and you must act+ and judge your servants so as to pay back the wicked by putting his course* upon his own head+ and by pronouncing the righteous one righteous+ by giving to him according to his own righteousness.+

10 “Now as regards you, O son of man, say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus YOU people have said: “Because our revolts and our sins are upon us and in them we are rotting away,+ how, then, shall we keep living?”’+

9 tribulation and distress, upon the soul of every man who works what is injurious, of the Jew+ first and also of the Greek;+

7 Do not be misled:+ God is not one to be mocked.+ For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap;+