God's Judgment and the Law

¹² For all who have sinned ^(A)without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

⁴⁷ If anyone ^(A)hears my words and does not keep them, ^(B)I do not judge him; for ^(C)I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. ^48 (D)The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; ^(E)the word that I have spoken will judge him ^(F)on the last day.

³ But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. ^4 (A)For I am not aware of anything against myself, ^(B)but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

¹⁰ But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say, ^11 (A)‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that ^(B)the kingdom of God has come near.’ ¹² I tell you, ^(C)it will be more bearable on ^(D)that day for Sodom than for that town.

Woe to Unrepentant Cities

^13 (E)“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in ^(F)Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. ^14 (G)But it will be more bearable in the judgment for ^(H)Tyre and Sidon than for you. ¹⁵ And you, Capernaum, ^(I)will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to ^(J)Hades.

^16 (K)“The one who hears you hears me, and ^(L)the one who rejects you rejects me, and ^(M)the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

^47 (A)And that servant who ^(B)knew his master's will but ^(C)did not get ready ^(D)or act according to his will, will receive a ^(E)severe beating. ^48 (F)But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, ^(G)will receive a light beating. ^(H)Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.