Ecclesiastes 12:14

God will judge every deed, including hidden ones, whether good or evil. It grounds the call to fear God in the certainty of final accountability.

Cross-references · 14

• 2 Cor 5:10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
• Rom 2:16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
• Matt 12:36But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
• 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
• Matt 10:26Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
• Rom 14:10–12But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
• Luke 12:1–2In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
• Eccl 11:9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
• Eccl 3:17I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
• John 5:29And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
• Acts 17:30–31And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
• Matt 25:31–46When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
• Rev 20:11–15And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
• Ps 96:13Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

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