Love Keeps "No Record Of Wrongs"

When Paul describes the qualities of or expressed in love, found in 1 Corinthians 13, he says that love keeps no record of wrongs in verse five.  Really, what the Bible holds is that love keeps no record of wrongs in a petty or otherwise irrationalistic, unjust way.  The Bible very clearly does not mean that keeping any and all record of wrongs is evil.  One can realize this because it follows by necessity from both the obligations of Mosaic Law and from the nature of the final judgment as outlined in Revelation.  It is not that God is not loving (1 John 4:8, and more addressed below) or that there are situations where being unloving is permitted (Leviticus 19:18, Matthew 22:37-40).  Love, however, is a function of justice and not the other way around.  Justice is giving people what they deserve, and love could not be a moral obligation unless it was deserved by virtue of what God and fellow humans are.

Was this not the case, furthermore, no one could obey God's commands about how to handle specific sinners, such as murderers (Numbers 35:31), kidnappers (Exodus 21:16, Deuteronomy 24:7), perjurers (Deuteronomy 19:16-21), rapists (Deuteronomy 22:25-27), and more in this life, especially since there is supposed to be a literal, thorough investigation into testimony and other evidences before anyone is punished (Numbers 35:30, Deuteronomy 17:6-7, 19:15).  No one is to be legally penalized without at least two or three honest witnesses.  Whether by memory or by documentation, evidences/records of some kind are a moral requirement if someone is to be punished with execution or any other penalty.  It is obligatory to love others (Leviticus 19:18), and yet there is no contradiction in love and this sort of record-keeping or justice because love is owed as an obligation that everyone deserves to have fulfilled to them (Romans 13:8-10).  It is part of justice.

Now, as if he would not be a heretic if he held to the opposite, Paul says more than once that Mosaic Law is not some morally deficient set of superceded or tyrannical demands (Acts 23:1-5, 24:14, Romans 7:7, 1 Timothy 1:8-11).  What he does freely acknowledge is that it is incapable of saving sinners in a soteriological sense (Galatians 3:10-11, Ephesians 2:8-9), for if someone has already morally erred, making them at least a past sinner, no amount of righteousness from then onward would undo their mistake(s).  Also, Paul affirms a future eschatological resurrection of the dead and subsequent judgment (Acts 17:30-31 with 24:14-15).  Referring to these events, Revelation 20:12 and 15 mention either a book of life or other unnamed books that detail what the resurrected dead have done, and each person is judged according to what they had done (see also Romans 2:5-11).

Revelation 20:11-15, among many other passages like John 5:19-30, speaks of a future judgment.  Other verses like Ezekiel 18:4, Daniel 12:2, Isaiah 66:22-24, John 3:16, and Romans 6:23 talk, without providing many details about when it would take place or the duration of potential pain before the souls of the wicked are killed once and for all (Matthew 10:28, 2 Peter 2:6), about a future slaying of the wicked as their final punishment, which is contrasted with the eternal life and bliss of the righteous.  The effects of this killing are eternal since the wicked are not to be resurrected again.  Matthew 25:31-46 addresses a separate but still eschatological judgment of the wicked who are alive at the return of Christ.  In either case, there is judgment from a deity who is very loving (Deuteronomy 10:14-19, John 3:16, 1 John 4:8-11, and so on).

Obviously, the Bible does not teach in 1 Corinthians 13:5 that it is unloving to mentally or physically record wrongdoing by others for certain purposes.  It is tracking wrongs for selfish gain, to use maliciously and thus unjustly against the offender, or without regard for the sinner as a person that would be immoral.  As if this would not already follow from the tenets of Mosaic Law as aforementioned, it would plainly contradict the doctrine of ultimate divine judgment if anything else was meant.  Yahweh is loving and yet absolutely is said to keep precise, flawless records of every person's sins in order to punish them, which culminates in their unrevoked death of body and soul.  A truly omniscient being would not need books to recall such things, but the description in Revelation 20 does emphasize that it is the wicked dead who have sinned, and not God, who uses the books to seemingly present to the dead their errors.  Love and recording wrongs are not logically contradictory and the Bible does not deny this.