⁶ that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord ^(A)is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.

^4 (A)Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; ^(B)but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

¹⁹ Beloved, ^(A)do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, ^(B)“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.

⁴ Indeed ^(A)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and ^(B)the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of ^[a]Sabaoth.

⁶ But ^(A)you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you ^(B)and drag you into the courts?

⁴ For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.

⁵ But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, ^(A)fear Him!