Good News Translation
but he punishes us before we have sinned too much.

New Revised Standard Version
in order that he may not take vengeance on us afterward when our sins have reached their height.

Contemporary English Version
He punishes us right away--before our sins are too great.

New American Bible
in order that he may not have to punish us later, when our sins have reached their fullness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Doth he also deal with us, so as to suffer our sins to come to their height, and then take vengeance on us.

Doth he also deal with us, so as to suffer our sins to come to their height, and then take vengeance on us.

2 Maccabees 6:13
For it is a token of great goodness, when sinners are not suffered to go on in their ways for a long time, but are presently punished.

2 Maccabees 6:14
For, not as with other nations, (whom the Lord patiently expecteth, that when the day of judgment shall come, he may punish them in the fulness of their sins:)

2 Maccabees 6:16
And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: but though he chastise his people with adversity he forsaketh them not.

2 Maccabees 6:17
But let this suffice in a few words for a warning to the readers. And now we must come to the narration.