2 Corinthians 5:10

for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things [done] through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

For 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.

In Context

9Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

11having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:3Ye multiply not — ye speak haughtily — The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge [is] Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.

1 Kings 8:32then Thou dost hear in the heavens, and hast done, and hast judged Thy servants, to declare wicked the wicked, to put his way on his head, and to declare righteous the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

Job 34:11For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.

Psalms 9:7And Jehovah to the age abideth, He is preparing for judgment His throne.

Psalms 62:12And with Thee, O Lord, [is] kindness, For Thou dost recompense to each, According to his work!

Psalms 98:9Before Jehovah, For He hath come to judge the earth, He judgeth the world in righteousness, And the people in uprightness!

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 5:2-12

The Believer's Prospect beyond Death. ( a. d. 57.) 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up… Read the whole commentary →

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