Proverbs 24:12

Claiming ignorance is no excuse, for God weighs the heart and repays each person according to his deeds.

Cross-references · 29

• Job 34:11For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
• Rev 2:23And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
• Jer 17:10I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
• Ps 121:8The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
• Rom 2:6Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
• 1 Sam 16:7But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
• Prov 21:2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
• Eccl 5:8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
• Ps 121:3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
• Ps 17:3Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
• Ps 62:12Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
• Rev 22:12And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
• Rom 2:16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
• Jer 32:19Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
• Prov 5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
• 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.
• Rev 2:18And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
• 1 Sam 25:29Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
• 1 Sam 2:6The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
• Rev 1:18I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
• Dan 5:23But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
• Rev 20:12–15And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
• Heb 4:12–13For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
• Ps 7:9Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
• Matt 16:27For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
• Ps 44:21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
• Acts 17:28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
• Ps 66:9Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
• 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.

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