For He repays a person for what he has done, and brings on the person what he deserves.
Proverbs 24:12 - Tree of Life Version If you say, “Look, we didn’t know this.” Won’t He who weighs hearts perceive it? Won’t He who guards your soul know it? Won’t He repay each one according to his deeds? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; Doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? And he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his works? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you [profess ignorance and] say, Behold, we did not know this, does not He Who weighs and ponders the heart perceive and consider it? And He Who guards your life, does not He know it? And shall not He render to [you and] every man according to his works? American Standard Version (1901) 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? Common English Bible If you say, “Look, we didn’t know about it,” the one who weighs hearts—doesn’t he understand? The one who protects your life—he knows. He makes people pay for their actions. Catholic Public Domain Version If you would say: "I do not have sufficient strength." He who inspects the heart, the same one understands, and nothing slips past the one who preserves your soul. And he shall repay a man according to his works. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, end he shall render to a man according to his works. |
For He repays a person for what he has done, and brings on the person what he deserves.
Adonai will watch over your coming and your going from this time forth and forevermore.
You have examined my heart. You searched me at night. Though You test me, You find nothing. I resolved that my mouth will not sin.
If we had forgotten the Name of our God or stretched our hands to a foreign god,
Adonai judges the peoples. Vindicate me, Adonai, according to my righteousness and integrity in me.
He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see?
By the fruit of his mouth a man will be satisfied with good. The work of a man’s hands will reward him.
All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but Adonai weighs the motives.
All a man’s ways seem right in his own eyes, but Adonai weighs the heart.
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of Adonai, and He observes all his paths.
The iniquities of a wicked man will ensnare him. The cords of his sin will hold him down.
Though the profit of the land is taken by all, a king is served by the fields.
I Adonai search the heart, I try the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.
Great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Instead you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You had the vessels of His House brought before you, and you and your nobles, your consorts and your concubines have been drinking wine in them. You have praised the gods made of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. Yet you did not honor the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
For the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then ‘He will repay everyone according to his deeds.’
for ‘In Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His offspring.’
on the day when God judges the secrets of men according to my Good News through Messiah Yeshua.
Therefore do not judge anything before the time—wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the things hidden in darkness and also make clear the motives of the hearts. Then the praise for each one will come from God.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Messiah, so that each one may receive what is due for the things he did while in the body—whether good or bad.
and the One who lives. I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever! Moreover, I hold the keys of death and Sheol.
To the angel of Messiah’s community in Thyatira write: “Thus says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire and feet like polished bronze:
I will also strike her children with a deadly disease. Then all of Messiah’s communities will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each of you according to your deeds.
Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to pay back each one according to his deeds.
But Adonai said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or his stature, because I have already refused him. For He does not see a man as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but Adonai looks into the heart.”
Boast no more so proudly— insolence comes out of your mouth. For Adonai is the all-knowing God, and by Him deeds are weighed.
Adonai causes death and makes alive, He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
If anyone rises to pursue you and seek your life, then let my lord’s life be bound up in the bundle of the living—with Adonai your God. But let the soul of your enemies be hurled away as from the hollow of a sling.