Someone else might argue, “My dishonesty makes it clearer that God is truthful. It makes his glory shine more brightly. So why does he want to punish me for doing wrong?”
Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die as believers in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, and they’ll be rewarded for what they’ve done.”