Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.
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- KJV Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
- BSB and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.
- NKJV Also to You, O Lord, belongs mercy; For You render to each one according to his work.
- NASB And faithfulness is Yours, Lord, For You reward a person according to his work.
- NLT unfailing love, O Lord, is yours. Surely you repay all people according to what they have done.
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- 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.
- Job 34:11For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
- Ps 103:8Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
- Rom 2:6who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
- Exod 34:6–7Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
- 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.
- 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?
- Ps 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
- Ps 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
- Dan 9:9To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;
- Mic 7:18Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
- 1 Cor 3:8Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
- Ezek 18:30“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 shall not be your ruin.
- Rev 22:12“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.
- Ezek 33:20Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.
- Dan 9:18My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
- Eph 6:8knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
- Col 3:25But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
- 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:
- Ezek 7:27The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with desolation. The hands of the people of the land will be troubled. I will do to them after their way, and according to their own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.’”
- Ps 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
- 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:
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