⁵ They will give an account to Him who is ready ^(A)to judge the living and the dead.

⁹ Do not ^[a]grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be ^[b]condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door!

⁴² And ^(A)He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify ^(B)that it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge ^(C)of the living and the dead.

Preach the Word

4 I ^(A)charge you ^[a]therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, ^(B)who will judge the living and the dead ^[b]at His appearing and His kingdom:

¹⁰ But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For ^(A)we shall all stand before the judgment seat of ^[a]Christ. ¹¹ For it is written:

¹² So then ^(C)each of us shall give account of himself to God.

²² For the Father judges no one, but ^(A)has committed all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. ^(B)He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

¹⁴ Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, ¹⁵ to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the ^(A)harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

³¹ because He has appointed a day on which ^(A)He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by ^(B)raising Him from the dead.”

³⁶ But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a ^[a]mystery: ^(A)We shall not all sleep, ^(B)but we shall all be changed— ⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. ^(C)For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.