18 Be careful that no one entices you by riches;
    do not let a large bribe(A) turn you aside.(B)

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18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

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God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity

18 The wrath of God(A) is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,

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18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

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24 and he is gracious to that person and says to God,
    ‘Spare them from going down to the pit;(A)
    I have found a ransom for them(B)

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24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

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Let no one deceive you(A) with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath(B) comes on those who are disobedient.(C)

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Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

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who gave himself as a ransom(A) for all people. This has now been witnessed to(B) at the proper time.(C)

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Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

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But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath(A), when his righteous judgment(B) will be revealed.

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But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

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But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers!(A) Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?(B)

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But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

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which in anger struck down peoples(A)
    with unceasing blows,
and in fury subdued(B) nations
    with relentless aggression.(C)

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He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

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The Lord is at your right hand[a];(A)
    he will crush kings(B) on the day of his wrath.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 110:5 Or My lord is at your right hand, Lord

The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

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No one can redeem the life of another
    or give to God a ransom for them—
the ransom(A) for a life is costly,
    no payment is ever enough—(B)

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None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)

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10 Remove your scourge from me;
    I am overcome by the blow(A) of your hand.(B)

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10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

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12 Kiss his son,(A) or he will be angry
    and your way will lead to your destruction,
for his wrath(B) can flare up in a moment.
    Blessed(C) are all who take refuge(D) in him.

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12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

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He rebukes them in his anger(A)
    and terrifies them in his wrath,(B) saying,

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Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

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