Verse 12

If you say,“But we did not know about this,” won’t the one who evaluates hearts discern it? Won’t the one who guards your life realize and repay each person according to his deeds?

Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:11 : 11 For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.
  • 1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But the LORD said to Samuel,“Don’t be impressed by his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. People look on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
  • Ps 121:8 : 8 The LORD will protect you in all you do, now and forevermore.
  • Prov 21:2 : 2 All of a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the LORD evaluates his thoughts.
  • Eccl 5:8 : 8 Government Corruption If you see the extortion of the poor, or the perversion of justice and fairness in the government, do not be astonished by the matter. For the high official is watched by a higher official, and there are higher ones over them!
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 Furthermore, I will strike her followers with a deadly disease, and then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts. I will repay each one of you what your deeds deserve.
  • Rom 2:6 : 6 He will reward each one according to his works:
  • Ps 121:3 : 3 May he not allow your foot to slip! May your protector not sleep!
  • Ps 62:12 : 12 and you, O Lord, demonstrate loyal love. For you repay men for what they do.
  • Ps 66:9 : 9 He preserves our lives and does not allow our feet to slip.
  • 1 Sam 25:29 : 29 When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag of the living by the LORD your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling’s pocket!
  • Ps 7:9 : 9 May the evil deeds of the wicked come to an end! But make the innocent secure, O righteous God, you who examine inner thoughts and motives!
  • Ps 17:3 : 3 You have scrutinized my inner motives; you have examined me during the night. You have carefully evaluated me, but you find no sin. I am determined I will say nothing sinful.
  • Ps 44:21 : 21 would not God discover it, for he knows one’s thoughts?
  • 1 Sam 2:6 : 6 The LORD both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.
  • Prov 5:21 : 21 For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths.
  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I, the LORD, probe into people’s minds. I examine people’s hearts. I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.
  • Jer 32:19 : 19 You plan great things and you do mighty deeds. You see everything people do. You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do.
  • Dan 5:23 : 23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone– gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!
  • Matt 16:27 : 27 For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.
  • Acts 17:28 : 28 For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said,‘For we too are his offspring.’
  • Rom 2:16 : 16 on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.
  • 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition from God.
  • 2 Cor 5:10 : 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil.
  • Heb 4:12-13 : 12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit, and joints from marrow; it is able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart. 13 And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.
  • Rev 1:18 : 18 and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive– forever and ever– and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!
  • Rev 2:18 : 18 To the Church in Thyatira“To the angel of the church in Thyatira write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the Son of God, the one who has eyes like a fiery flame and whose feet are like polished bronze:
  • Rev 20:12-15 : 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then books were opened, and another book was opened– the book of life. So the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, 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 If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.
  • Rev 22:12 : 12 (Look! I am coming soon, and my reward is with me to pay each one according to what he has done!