Matthew 12:36
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
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- Eccl 12:14 : 14 For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
- Jude 1:14-15 : 14 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
- Rev 20:12 : 12 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
- Rom 2:16 : 16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
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