and will come out – the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.
You plan great things and you do mighty deeds. You see everything people do. You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do.
Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
I have a hope in God (a hope that these men themselves accept too) that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
Tell them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, to be generous givers, sharing with others.
but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.
And do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.
And he must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.