¹⁰ You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister^[a]? Or why do you treat them with contempt?^(A) For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.^(B)

⁹ So we make it our goal to please him,^(A) whether we are at home in the body or away from it. ¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us^(B) for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

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¹¹ Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord,^(C) we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.^(D)