2 Corinthians 5:10

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things `done' through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τοὺς γὰρ πάντας ἡμᾶς φανερωθῆναι δεῖ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ βήματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ· ἵνα κομίσηται ἕκαστος τὰ διὰ τοῦ σώματος, πρὸς ἃ ἔπραξεν, εἴτε ἀγαθὸν εἴτε κακόν.

Transliteration

The gar all us to be phanerōthēnai dei emprosthen of the bēmatos of the Christou; so that might komisētai hekastos the things through the sōmatos, according to what he epraxen, whether agathon or kakon.

Grammar Details

• *gar*: conjunction - for/because [explanatory]
• *phanerōthēnai*: aorist passive infinitive - to be manifested/revealed
• *dei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - it is necessary/must
• *emprosthen*: preposition + genitive - before/in front of
• *bēmatos*: noun, genitive neuter singular - judgment seat/tribunal
• *Christou*: noun, genitive masculine singular - Christ
• *komisētai*: aorist middle subjunctive, 3rd person singular - might receive/obtain
• *hekastos*: adjective, nominative masculine singular - each one/every one
• *sōmatos*: noun, genitive neuter singular - body
• *epraxen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - did/practiced
• *agathon*: adjective, accusative neuter singular - good
• *kakon*: adjective, accusative neuter singular - evil/bad

Word Meanings

• *phanerōthēnai*: to be manifested/revealed/made apparent
• *bēmatos*: judgment seat/tribunal/platform
• *komisētai*: might receive/obtain/get back
• *epraxen*: did/practiced/performed
• *agathon*: good/beneficial/upright
• *kakon*: evil/bad/harmful

Referenced Verses

• Eph 6:8 : 8 having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.
• 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.
• Ps 62:12 : 12 And with Thee, O Lord, `is' kindness, For Thou dost recompense to each, According to his work!
• Col 3:24-25 : 24 having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve; 25 and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.
• Rev 22:12 : 12 And lo, I come quickly, and my reward `is' with me, to render to each as his work shall be;
• Matt 16:27 : 27 `For, the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father, with his messengers, and then he will reward each, according to his work.
• 1 Pet 4:5 : 5 who shall give an account to Him who is ready to judge living and dead,
• Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap, 8 because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;
• Rom 2:5-9 : 5 but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who shall render to each according to his works; 7 to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during; 8 and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek; 10 and glory, and honour, and peace, to every one who is working the good, both to Jew first, and to Greek.
• Rom 12:1-2 : 1 I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service; 2 and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
• Matt 25:31-46 : 31 `And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; 32 and gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats, 33 and he shall set the sheep indeed on his right hand, and the goats on the left. 34 `Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world; 35 for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me; 36 naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me. 37 `Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, and we nourished? or thirsting, and we gave to drink? 38 and when did we see thee a stranger, and we received? or naked, and we put around? 39 and when did we see thee infirm, or in prison, and we came unto thee? 40 `And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did `it' to one of these my brethren -- the least -- to me ye did `it'. 41 Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers; 42 for I did hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink; 43 a stranger I was, and ye did not receive me; naked, and ye put not around me; infirm, and in prison, and ye did not look after me. 44 `Then shall they answer, they also, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or infirm, or in prison, and we did not minister to thee? 45 `Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did `it' not to one of these, the least, ye did `it' not to me. 46 And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'
• Acts 10:42 : 42 and he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify fully that it is he who hath been ordained by God judge of living and dead --
• Ps 98:9 : 9 Before Jehovah, For He hath come to judge the earth, He judgeth the world in righteousness, And the people in uprightness!
• Eccl 11:9 : 9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.
• Eccl 12:14 : 14 For every work doth God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.'
• Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Say ye to the righteous, that `it is' good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat. 11 Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
• Ezek 18:30 : 30 Therefore, each according to his ways I judge you, O house of Israel? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Turn ye back, yea, turn yourselves back, From all your transgressions, And iniquity is not to you for a stumbling-block,
• Acts 17:31 : 31 because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'
• Gen 18:25 : 25 Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been -- as the righteous so the wicked -- far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'
• 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge `is' Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.
• 1 Sam 2:10 : 10 Jehovah -- broken down are His adversaries, Against them in the heavens He thundereth: Jehovah judgeth the ends of earth, And giveth strength to His king, And exalteth the horn of His anointed.'
• 1 Kgs 8:32 : 32 then Thou dost hear in the heavens, and hast done, and hast judged Thy servants, to declare wicked the wicked, to put his way on his head, and to declare righteous the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
• Job 34:11 : 11 For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.
• Ps 7:6-8 : 6 Rise, O Jehovah, in Thine anger, Be lifted up at the wrath of mine adversaries, And awake Thou for me: Judgment Thou hast commanded: 7 And a company of peoples compass Thee, And over it on high turn Thou back, 8 Jehovah doth judge the peoples; Judge me, O Jehovah, According to my righteousness, And according to mine integrity on me,
• Ps 9:7-8 : 7 And Jehovah to the age abideth, He is preparing for judgment His throne. 8 And He judgeth the world in righteousness, He judgeth the peoples in uprightness.
• Ps 50:3-6 : 3 Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous. 4 He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people. 5 Gather ye to Me My saints, Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice. 6 And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself `is' judge. Selah.
• Rom 6:12-13 : 12 Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires; 13 neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;
• Ps 96:10-13 : 10 Say among nations, `Jehovah hath reigned, Also -- established is the world, unmoved, He judgeth the peoples in uprightness.' 11 The heavens joy, and the earth is joyful, The sea and its fulness roar. 12 The field exulteth, and all that `is' in it, Then sing do all trees of the forest, 13 Before Jehovah, for He hath come, For He hath come to judge the earth. He judgeth the world in righteousness, And the peoples in His faithfulness!
• Jude 1:14-15 : 14 And prophesy also to these did the seventh from Adam -- Enoch -- saying, `Lo, the Lord did come in His saintly myriads, 15 to do judgment against all, and to convict all their impious ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'
• Rev 2:23 : 23 and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you -- to each -- according to your works.
• Rev 20:11-15 : 11 And I saw a great white throne, and Him who is sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven did flee away, and place was not found for them; 12 and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which is that of the life, and the dead were judged out of the things written in the scrolls -- according to their works; 13 and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were judged, each one according to their works; 14 and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire -- this `is' the second death; 15 and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.
• Rom 6:19 : 19 In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness -- to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness -- to sanctification,
• Rom 14:10-12 : 10 And thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand at the tribunal of the Christ; 11 for it hath been written, `I live! saith the Lord -- to Me bow shall every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God;' 12 so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God;
• 1 Cor 6:12-20 : 12 All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any; 13 the meats `are' for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body `is' not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body; 14 and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power. 15 Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not! 16 have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.' 17 And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit; 18 flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin. 19 Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, 20 for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
• 2 Cor 7:3 : 3 not to condemn you do I say `it', for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;
• 1 Kgs 8:39 : 39 then Thou dost hear in the heavens, the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast forgiven, and hast done, and hast given to each according to all his ways, whose heart Thou knowest, (for Thou hast known -- Thyself alone -- the heart of all the sons of man),