Deuteronomy 19:20

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

“Bring him who cursed out of the camp; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.

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.”

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

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

“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.”

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.

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

All the people shall hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

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.

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.

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

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

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

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

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.

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

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.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.

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.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

“Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone that person with stones.

He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.

All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.

The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

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

The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.

“ ‘ “But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.

“ ‘ “But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord Yahweh.

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

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

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.

This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

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.

And behold, a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on it was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.

The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.