Acts 25:6

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.

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.

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

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.

When therefore they had come together here, I didn’t delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought.

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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.

They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

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.”

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”

When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”

When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

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.

When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.

On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”

When they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.

But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.

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.

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

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?”

But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”

God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

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.

He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

“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.”

Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

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

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

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.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

“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 greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,

But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee,

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.

“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

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.”

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

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.

But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

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.

that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,

Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.

When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.

When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”

But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.

When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,

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.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?