Revelation 20:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, the book of life. And the dead were judged according to their works, as recorded in the books.

Cross References

Psalm 28:4

Repay them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; repay them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.

Psalm 62:12

and steadfast love belongs to you, O Lord. For you repay to all according to their work.

Psalm 69:28

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.

Proverbs 24:12

if you say, “Look, we did not know this”— does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it? And will he not repay all according to their deeds?

Proverbs 24:29

Do not say, “I will do to others as they have done to me; I will pay them back for what they have done.”

Ecclesiastes 12:14

For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.

Jeremiah 17:10

I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings.

Jeremiah 32:19

great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of mortals, rewarding all according to their ways and according to the fruit of their doings.

Daniel 7:10

A stream of fire issued and flowed out from his presence. A thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood attending him. The court sat in judgment, and the books were opened.

Matthew 11:22

But I tell you, on the day of judgment it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon than for you.

Matthew 16:27

“For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay everyone for what has been done.

Luke 10:20

Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Acts 24:15

I have a hope in God—a hope that they themselves also accept—that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

Romans 2:6

He will repay according to each one’s deeds:

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive commendation from God.

2 Corinthians 5:10

For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive due recompense for actions done in the body, whether good or evil.

Philippians 4:3

Yes, and I ask you also, my loyal companion, help these women, for they have struggled beside me in the work of the gospel, together with Clement and the rest of my coworkers, whose names are in the book of life.

Revelation 11:18

The nations raged, but your wrath has come, and the time for judging the dead, for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints and all who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”

Revelation 13:8

and all the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered.

Revelation 17:8

The beast that you saw was and is not and is about to ascend from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the inhabitants of the earth, whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be amazed when they see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.

Revelation 19:5

And from the throne came a voice saying, “Praise our God, all you his servants and all who fear him, small and great.”

Revelation 2:23

and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.

Revelation 20:11

Then I saw a great white throne and the one who sat on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.

Revelation 20:13

And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and all were judged according to what they had done.

Revelation 20:15

and anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Revelation 22:12

“See, I am coming soon; my reward is with me, to repay according to everyone’s work.

Revelation 3:5

If you conquer, you will be clothed like them in white robes, and I will not erase your name from the book of life; I will confess your name before my Father and before his angels.