Bible verses about "judgment" | Goodspeed

³⁶ But I tell you, for every careless word that men utter they will have to answer on the Day of Judgment. ³⁷ For it is by your words that you will be acquitted, or by your words that you will be condemned."

⁵ Do not form any premature judgments, therefore, but wait until the Lord comes back. For he will light up the darkness that now hides things and show what the motives in people's minds are, and then everyone will get from God the praise he deserves.

⁵ But in your obstinacy and impenitence you are storing up wrath for yourself on the Day of Wrath, when the justice of God will burst forth. ⁶ For he will pay every man for what he has done. ⁷ Those who by persistently doing right strive for glory, honor, and immortality will have eternal life, ⁸ but self-seeking people who are disloyal to the truth and responsive only to what is wrong will experience anger and fury, ⁹ crushing distress and anguish, every human soul of them that actually does what is wrong—the Jew first, and the Greek also; ¹⁰ but there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does right, the Jew first, and the Greek also, ¹¹ for God shows no partiality. ¹² All who sin without having the Law will perish without regard to the Law, and all who sin under the Law will be judged by the Law.

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne with a being seated on it from whose presence earth and sky fled so far that they could not be found. ¹² I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened; it was the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books about what they had done. ¹³ The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and the underworld gave up the dead that were in them, and they were all judged by what they had done. ¹⁴ Then death and Hades were flung into the fiery lake. This is the second death—the fiery lake. ¹⁵ Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was flung into the fiery lake.

¹⁰ For we must all appear in our true characters before the tribunal of the Christ, each to be repaid with good or evil for the life he has lived in the body.

¹⁰ What business have you to criticize your brother? What business have you to look down upon your brother? We shall all have to stand before God for judgment. ¹¹ For the Scripture says, "As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bend before me, And every tongue will make its confession to God." ¹² So each one of us must give an account of himself to God.

¹² So each one of us must give an account of himself to God. ¹³ Therefore let us not criticize one another any more. You must resolve instead never to put any hindrance or obstacle in your brother's way.

¹³ For the merciless will be mercilessly judged; but mercy will triumph over judgment.

¹ "Pass no more judgments upon other people, so that you may not have judgment passed upon you. ² For you will be judged by the standard you judge by, and men will pay you back with the same measure you have used with them. ³ Why do you keep looking at the speck in your brother's eye, and pay no attention to the beam that is in your own? ⁴ How can you say to your brother, 'Just let me get that speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a beam in your own? ⁵ You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get the speck out of your brother's eye. ⁶ "Do not give what is sacred to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet and turn and tear you in pieces. ⁷ Ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you. ⁸ For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens. ⁹ Which of you men when his son asks him for some bread will give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake? ¹¹ So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it! ¹² Therefore, you must always treat other people as you would like to have them treat you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. ¹³ "Go in at the narrow gate. For the road that leads to destruction is broad and spacious, and there are many who go in by it. ¹⁴ But the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few that find it. ¹⁵ "Beware of the false prophets, who come to you disguised as sheep but are ravenous wolves underneath. ¹⁶ You can tell them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles? ¹⁷ Just so any sound tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ No sound tree can bear bad fruit, and no poor tree can bear good fruit. ¹⁹ Any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and burned. ²⁰ So you can tell them by their fruit. ²¹ It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord! Lord!' who will get into the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven. ²² Many will say to me on that Day, 'Lord! Lord! Was it not in your name that we prophesied, and by your name that we drove out demons, and by your name that we did many mighty acts?' ²³ Then I will say to them plainly, 'I never knew you! Go away from me, you who do wrong!' ²⁴ "Everyone, therefore, who listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it, will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock. ²⁵ And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew, and beat about that house, and it did not go down, for its foundations were on rock. ²⁶ And anyone who listens to this teaching of mine and does not act upon it, will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. ²⁷ And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and beat about that house, and it went down, and its downfall was complete." ²⁸ When Jesus had finished this discourse, the crowds were astounded at his teaching, ²⁹ for he taught them like one who had authority and not like their scribes.