The ultimate reckoning of humanity's deeds is a solemn reality throughout Scripture. According to Hebrews 9:27, each person will face judgment after death, and 2 Corinthians 5:10 reveals that believers will give an account of their actions to receive their eternal rewards. The Bible warns of a terrible fate for the unrepentant, as seen in 2 Peter 2:4, while Romans 2:5 cautions that God's patience will eventually give way to wrath. On that final day, as described in Revelation 20:11-12, all will stand before the throne of God, their works and hearts laid bare, to receive the verdict that will determine their eternal destiny.
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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent. For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.