There will be a relationship between the punishment and change. As their bodies burn, a change will take place in their spirit forever and ever; for before the Lord of spirits none shall utter an idle word. 10 For the judgment shall come on them, because they believe in the lust of their body and deny the Spirit of the Lord. 1 John 2:16-17 (New International Version) 16 Foreverything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but
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