Revelation 2:23

WEB

²³I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

KJV

²³ And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

BSB

²³Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

FBV

²³I will put her children to death. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who examines thoughts and motives.^[+] I will repay each of you according to what you've done.

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Extra References

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.

Romans 8:27

²⁷He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

Psalms 7:9

⁹Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

1 Peter 1:17

¹⁷If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

Acts 1:24

²⁴They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

Jeremiah 17:10

¹⁰“I, the LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Jeremiah 11:20

²⁰But, LORD of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

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. ¹¹For there is no partiality with God.

John 2:24-25

²⁴But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone, ²⁵and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

1 Samuel 16:7

⁷But the LORD said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”