If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.
and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.
He will render to each one according to his works:
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
and that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For you will render to a man according to his work.
You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.
who has kept our soul among the living and has not let our feet slip.
would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!
If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the Lord your God. And the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.
The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.
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