In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Parallel translations
- WEB in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
- BSB on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
- NKJV in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
- NASB on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of mankind through Christ Jesus.
- NLT And this is the message I proclaim—that the day is coming when God, through Christ Jesus, will judge everyone’s secret life.
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Quick answer
This judgment will come on the day God judges the secrets of all people through Jesus Christ, according to Paul's gospel. Christ is the appointed judge of every hidden thing.
Overview
Paul links the witness of conscience to the coming day of judgment, when God will judge even people's hidden secrets. Strikingly, this judgment is carried out 'by Jesus Christ,' affirming Christ's role as final judge (Acts 17:31). That this is 'according to my Good News' shows the gospel includes the sobering reality of judgment, which makes the offer of salvation in Christ all the more urgent.
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Cross-references · 30
- Eccl 12:14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
- 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.
- Acts 17:31Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
- Luke 8:17For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.
- Acts 10:42And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
- John 5:22–29For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
- 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.
- 1 Pet 4:5Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
- Rom 3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
- 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.
- 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:
- John 12:48He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
- 2 Pet 2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
- 1 Tim 1:11According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
- Rom 16:25Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
- 2 Tim 2:8Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
- 2 Tim 4:1I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
- Ps 98:9Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
- 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.
- 2 Tim 4:8Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
- Rom 2:5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
- 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 50:6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
- Ps 9:7–8But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
- Heb 9:27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gal 1:11But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
- Gen 18:25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
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