“For He repays a person for his work, And lets things happen in correspondence to a man’s behavior.
Parallel translations
- WEB For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
- KJV For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
- BSB For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.
- NKJV For He repays man according to his work, And makes man to find a reward according to his way.
- NLT He repays people according to their deeds. He treats people as they deserve.
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Quick answer
God calls Israel to obey His commands and promises to drive out the Canaanite nations. Covenant grace comes with the call to obedience.
Overview
God reaffirms His commitment to dispossess the inhabitants of the land while charging Israel to keep His commands. Obedience is the grateful response to, not the basis of, His covenant grace. The listing of the nations underscores that the land is God's gift to be received on His terms.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- 2 Cor 5:10For 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.
- Rom 2:6who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
- Rev 22:12“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.
- Ps 62:12Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.
- Matt 16:27For 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.
- Jer 32:19great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
- Gal 6:7–8Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
- Prov 24:12If 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?
- 1 Pet 1:17If 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:
- Prov 1:31Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
- Ezek 33:17–20Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
- Job 33:26He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
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