Consequências dos nossos atos

12 So it is clear that it is God who will decide whether or not he approves of what each of us has done.

Because God is not influenced by a person’s status, he will pay back each person according to what that person has done.

6 God will pay back everyone according to what they deserve for what they have done. 7 Specifically, some people, by continuing to doing good things, strive to be highly honored by God [DOU] and to receive a life that will not end. God will reward them by enabling them to live forever. 8 But some people act in a selfish way and refuse to believe that what God says is true, and they do the things that God says are wrong. God will punish them very severely [DOU, MTY]. 9 He will cause everyone who habitually does evil deeds to suffer greatly, with the result that they will become severely distressed [DOU]. This certainly will happen to the Jews who refuse to accept God’s message, because God gave them the privilege to be his special people, but it will also happen to the non-Jews. 10 But God will greatly reward spiritually [MET, DOU] every person who habitually does good deeds. He will certainly do this for the Jews because God chose them as his special people, but he will also do it for the non-Jews. 11 God will do this fairly, because people’s status does not influence him.

16 And there is another way in which God’s freely erasing the record of our sins is not like the results of Adam’s sinning. One person, Adam, sinned. As a result, God declared that all people deserve to be punished. Many people sinned. But what God did was that he erased the record of their sins without their earning it. 17 All people die [MET, PRS] because of what one man, Adam, did. But now many of us experience that God has abundantly acted towards us in ways we did not deserve, and we experience that he has erased the record of our sins without our earning it. It is also very certain that we will rule with Christ (OR, share the glory of Christ’s being king), in heaven. This will happen because of what one man, Jesus Christ, did for us.

Jesus taught that we should not condemn others for their faults since we have faults ourselves.

1 "Do not talk about how sinfully others have acted, in order that God will not say how sinfully you have acted. 2 If you condemn other people, God will condemn you. To the same extent that you condemn others, you will be condemned {God will condemn you}.

36 I tell you that on the day when God judges [MTY], he will make people recall every useless word they have spoken, and he will judge them accordingly.

12 Beware of being insincere about doing this, because the message God has given us very powerfully penetrates our thinking more than a two-edged sword penetrates flesh [MET]. It penetrates deeply into our souls and spirits, as a sharp sword can penetrate into our joints and marrow. That is, by his message God [PRS] discerns all that we think about, and he discerns all that we desire to do [MTY] (OR, His message exposes to us all our thoughts and all our desires). 13 God knows everything about everyone. Everything is completely exposed [DOU] to him, and he is the one [SYN] who will say whether he approves of what we have done.

3 Those who have good sense realize that there is something dangerous ahead, and they avoid it;

those who do not have good sense just keep going and later they will suffer because of doing that.

12 If you are wise, you are the one who will benefit from it;

if you ridicule becoming wise, you are the one who will suffer.

25 You should think carefully before you solemnly promise to dedicate something to God,

because later you might be sorry you have promised to do it.

1 Yahweh also said to tell the people, "If a judge orders any of you to tell in court something that you have seen or something that you heard someone say, if you refuse to say what you know is true, you must ◄pay a penalty/be punished► [MTY] for refusing to tell what you know.

17 If you sin by doing something that is forbidden by any of Yahweh’s commands, even if you do not know that you have disobeyed one of my commands, you are guilty and must pay a penalty to me.

17 ‘Do not hate anyone. Instead, honestly rebuke those who ought to be rebuked, in order that you also will not be guilty.

13 But the other countries on the earth will become desolate

because of the evil things that their people have done.

49 Youpeople of Jerusalem will be punished for your immoral behavior and for your worshiping idols. Then you will know that I, Yahweh the Lord, have the power to do what I say that I will do."

5 I insist that murderers must be executed. Animals that kill people must also be executed. The reason that everyone who murders someone else must be executed is that

13 Wicked people revile you [RHQ] continually.

They think, "God will never punish us!"

14 But you see the trouble and the distress that they cause.

People who are suffering expect that you will help them;

and you help orphans, also.