Proverbs 24:12

World English Bible (2000)

If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

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  • Job 34:11 : 11 For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
  • 1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
  • Ps 121:8 : 8 Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forth, and forevermore. A Song of Ascents. By David.
  • Prov 21:2 : 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
  • Eccl 5:8 : 8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
  • Rom 2:6 : 6 who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"
  • Ps 121:3 : 3 He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
  • Ps 62:12 : 12 Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work. A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah.
  • Ps 66:9 : 9 who preserves our life among the living, and doesn't allow our feet to be moved.
  • 1 Sam 25:29 : 29 Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.
  • Ps 7:9 : 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
  • Ps 17:3 : 3 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
  • Ps 44:21 : 21 won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
  • 1 Sam 2:6 : 6 "Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
  • Prov 5:21 : 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.
  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
  • Jer 32:19 : 19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house 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 brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
  • Matt 16:27 : 27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
  • Acts 17:28 : 28 'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'
  • Rom 2:16 : 16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
  • 2 Cor 5:10 : 10 For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
  • Heb 4:12-13 : 12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Rev 1:18 : 18 and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
  • Rev 2:18 : 18 "To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: "The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:
  • Rev 20:12-15 : 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. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
  • Rev 22:12 : 12 "Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

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