2 Samuel 22:25
Hebrew Text— 2 Samuel 22:25Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
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Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
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.
knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
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.
Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.
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.
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.
“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.
You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.
Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.
Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?
“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”
Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.
I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”
Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
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;
They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”
For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
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.
I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you.
She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;
because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.
Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”
“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”
who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”
But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
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.
Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.
For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
Yahweh said, “Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
“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.”
It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.
Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.
“So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
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.
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.
I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.