Judgment

Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

²⁷ Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

²⁸ so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.

²⁶ If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

²⁷ but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.

²⁸ Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁹ How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

³⁰ For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

¹⁰ Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

¹¹ For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

¹² Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom.

¹³ For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

¹¹ Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.

¹² There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

²² Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

²³ so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

²⁴ Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.

And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

⁴ Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

⁵ Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

⁶ For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

¹² If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

¹³ his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.

¹⁴ If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

¹⁵ If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.

¹⁶ Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

¹⁷ If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

⁵ But they will have to give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

⁶ That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

¹⁷ For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?

¹⁸ And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”

Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”

⁷ Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.

⁸ The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

¹⁸ Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

¹⁹ And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”

²⁴ Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

²⁵ Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.

²⁶ But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

¹⁰ And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.

¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.

¹³ The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.

¹⁴ Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.

¹⁵ And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

³ I care very little, however, if I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

⁴ My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.

On hearing these words, Ananias fell down and died. And great fear came over all who heard what had happened.

⁵ Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

⁶ And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

⁷ So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died in the presence of the LORD.

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

⁹ “How could you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord?” Peter replied. “Look, the feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”

¹⁰ At that instant she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

As Paul expounded on righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, “You may go for now. When I find the time, I will call for you.”

³¹ While the words were still in the king’s mouth, a voice came from heaven: “It is decreed to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that the kingdom has departed from you.

³² You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.”

³³ At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.

At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.

And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

²¹ And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

²² Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

²³ And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed.

²¹ “Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,

²² not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—

²³ not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.

³⁰ But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”

³¹ As soon as Moses had finished saying all this, the ground beneath them split open,

³² and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households—all Korah’s men and all their possessions.

³³ They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.

³⁴ At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow us too!”

³⁵ And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

¹⁶ And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

¹⁷ For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and He struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.