You need to read something other than Paul. You can't form doctrine on one singular witness, unless that witness is Christ:
Luke 10:25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master,
what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
26He said unto him,
What is written in the law? how readest thou?
27And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
28And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right:
this do, and thou shalt live.
John 11:5 Now
Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and
Lazarus.
John 14:21
He that hath my commandments,
and keepeth them,
he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and
I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
-Lazarus was loved by Jesus, which means Lazarus kept His commandments. Had Lazarus not kept His commandments, and not loved Jesus, then Jesus wouldn't have loved him, and ths would have been a different story.
When the wicked sins, is his death not merited unto him? Has he not earned his wages?