Revelation 20:12
And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of the things written in the books, according to their works.
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Psalms 28:4Give them according to their deeds, and the wickedness of their doings; Give them according to the work of their hands; Render to them their desert!
Psalms 69:28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; Let not their names be written with the righteous!
Proverbs 24:29Say not, “As he hath done to me, So will I do to him; I will render to the man according to his doings.”
Jeremiah 17:10I, Jehovah, search the heart, And try the reins, To give to every man according to his ways, And according to the fruit of his doings.
Daniel 7:10A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him; thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the tribunal sat, and the books were opened.
Matthew 16:27For the Son of man is to come in the glory of his Father, with his angels; and then will he render to every one according to his works.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 20:12-15
The Universal Judgment. ( a. d. 95.) 11 And 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. 12 And 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. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the… Read the whole commentary →