Revelation 20:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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 which were written in the books, according to their works.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² I [also] saw the dead, great and small; they stood before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is [the Book] of Life. And the dead were judged (sentenced) by what they had done [their whole way of feeling and acting, their aims and endeavors] in accordance with what was recorded in the books.

American Standard Version (1901)

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 which were written in the books, according to their works.

Common English Bible

¹² I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. Another scroll was opened too; this is the scroll of life. And the dead were judged on the basis of what was written in the scrolls about what they had done.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in view of the throne. And books were opened. And another Book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged by those things that had been written in the books, according to their works.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of the throne, and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Revelation 20:12 Cross References

Psalm 28:4

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings: Give them after the operation of their hands; Render to them their desert.

Psalm 62:12

Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: For thou renderest to every man according to his work.

Psalm 69:28

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.

Proverbs 24:12

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew not this: Doth not he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?

Proverbs 24:29

Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.

Ecclesiastes 12:14

For God shall bring every work into judgement, with every hidden thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.

Jeremiah 17:10

I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Jeremiah 32:19

great in counsel, and mighty in work: whose 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:

Daniel 7:10

A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgement was set, and the books were opened.

Matthew 11:22

Howbeit I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgement, than for you.

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then shall he render unto every man according to his deeds.

Luke 10:20

Howbeit in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.

Acts 24:15

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust.

Romans 2:6

who will render to every man according to his works:

1 Corinthians 4:5

Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from God.

2 Corinthians 5:10

For we must all be made manifest before the judgement-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Philippians 4:3

Yea, I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Revelation 11:18

And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth.

Revelation 13:8

And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain from the foundation of the world.

Revelation 17:8

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, they whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come.

Revelation 19:5

And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Give praise to our God, all ye his servants, ye that fear him, the small and the great.

Revelation 2:23

And 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 each one of you according to your works.

Revelation 20:11

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

Revelation 20:13

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Revelation 20:15

And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:27

and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Revelation 22:12

Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is.

Revelation 3:5

He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.