¹² And I saw the dead, great and small,^(A) standing before the throne, and books were opened.^(B) Another book was opened, which is the book of life.^(C) The dead were judged^(D) according to what they had done^(E) as recorded in the books.

¹³ The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades^(A) gave up the dead^(B) that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.^(C)

⁸ I looked, and there before me was a pale horse!^(A) Its rider was named Death, and Hades^(B) was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.^(C)

² Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake:^(A) some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.^(B)

²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life^(A) in himself.

²⁷ And he has given him authority to judge^(A) because he is the Son of Man.

²⁸ “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming^(A) when all who are in their graves will hear his voice

²⁹ and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.^(A)

⁴⁶ “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.^(A)”^(B)

¹¹ Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’^(A)