Judgment: According to Opportunity and Works

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”

For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.

If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

By fruitful speech a man is filled with good things, and the work of his hands returns to him.

Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.

If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?

…and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.

Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.

Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. …

So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.

But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.

…people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil? …

So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.

I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”

…the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.

I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.” …

For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die. …

Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live. …

If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it. …

I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them.

And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.

The LORD has a charge to bring against Judah. He will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”

And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.

Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey. …

For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions. …

If anyone will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that place, as a testimony against them.”

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

If anyone does not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that town, as a testimony against them.”

I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town. …

Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’ …

That servant who knows his master’s will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.

But the one who unknowingly does things worthy of punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from him who has been entrusted with much, even more will be demanded.

Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. …

So He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to lay claim to his kingship and then return. …

They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, …

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.

Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

“If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”

There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.

But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. …

The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.

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 are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

To the one we are an odor that brings death, to the other a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?

It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions.

For each one should carry his own load. …

Serve with good will, as to the Lord and not to men,

…because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.

Whoever does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, and there is no favoritism.

I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.

Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,

…how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? This salvation was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

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

See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?

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

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

Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.

If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.

Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

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

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