1 Thessalonians 2:4

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

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.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

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.

But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, 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.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

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.

They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

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.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

“Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.

Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night.

then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);

Urijah the priest did so, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, I will say what my God says.”

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.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

“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.”

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

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.