³⁶ I tell you, ^(A)on the day of judgment ^(B)people will give account for ^(C)every careless word they speak, ³⁷ for ^(D)by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(A)whoever hears my word and ^(B)believes him who sent me has eternal life. He ^(C)does not come into judgment, but ^(D)has passed from death to life.

Life in the Spirit

8 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.^[a]

¹¹ For no one can lay a ^(A)foundation other ^(B)than that which is laid, ^(C)which is Jesus Christ. ¹² Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— ^13 (D)each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed ^(E)by fire, and ^(F)the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. ¹⁴ If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, ^(G)he will receive a reward. ¹⁵ If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, ^(H)but only as through fire.

¹⁰ For ^(A)we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, ^(B)so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

²⁷ And just as ^(A)it is appointed for man to die once, and ^(B)after that comes judgment,

¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and ^(A)books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is ^(B)the book of life. And ^(C)the dead were judged by what was written in the books, ^(D)according to what they had done. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, ^(E)Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, ^(F)according to what they had done. ¹⁴ Then ^(G)Death and Hades ^(H)were thrown into the lake of fire. This is ^(I)the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, ^(J)he was thrown into the lake of fire.