25. Because of this, you have given a judgment in derision, as if from foolish children.
26. But those who have not been corrected by mockery and chiding, have experienced a judgment worthy of God.
27. For among those who were indignant at their sufferings, which came through those things that they reputed to be gods, when they saw that they would be destroyed by these same things, those who formerly refused knowledge of him, now acknowledged the true God, and, because of this, the end of their condemnation came upon them.