Ecclesiastes 3:17

WEB

¹⁷I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

KJV

¹⁷I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

BSB

¹⁷I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”

FBV

¹⁷But then I thought to myself, “Ultimately God will judge both those who do right and those who do wrong, and every deed and action, at the appointed time.”

Extra References

2 Corinthians 5:10

¹⁰For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Ecclesiastes 12:14

¹⁴For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Matthew 16:27

²⁷For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will give to everyone according to his deeds.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

¹For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

⁵But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God, ⁶who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”⁷to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life; ⁸but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation, ⁹oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹⁰But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

⁹Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Psalms 98:9

⁹Let them sing before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

2 Thessalonians 1:6-10

⁶For it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, ⁷and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, ⁸punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, ⁹who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, ¹⁰when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

Acts 1:7

⁷He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

Revelation 20:11-15

¹¹I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away. There was found no place for them. ¹²I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. ¹³The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades^[+] gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. ¹⁴Death and Hades^[+] were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.