Consequências dos nossos atos
Toda ação tem consequências. A Bíblia ensina que colhemos o que semeamos — para o bem e para o mal. Deus pesará cada palavra e ato no dia do juízo.
Colher o que semear
Cada um prestará contas de si mesmo a Deus. O Senhor julgará as obras e os segredos dos homens com justiça perfeita.
Therefore each of us shall yield reason to God for himself.
that shall yield to each man after his works;
soothly to them that be by patience of good work, glory, and honour, and uncorruption, to them that seek everlasting life;
but to them that be of strife, and that assent not to truth, but believe to wickedness, wrath and indignation,
tribulation and anguish, into each soul of man that worketh evil, to the Jew first, and to the Greek;
but glory, and honour, and peace, to each man that worketh good thing, to the Jew first, and to the Greek.
For acception of persons, [that is, to put one before another without desert], is not with God.
And not as by one sin, so by the gift; for the doom, of one into condemnation, but the grace of many guilts [or trespassings] into justification.
For if in the guilt of one death reigned through one, much more men that take plenty of grace, and of giving, and of rightwiseness, shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ.
Do not ye deem, that ye be not deemed;
for in what doom ye deem, ye shall be deemed, and in what measure ye mete, it shall be meted again to you.
And I say to you, that of every idle word, that men speak, they shall yield reason thereof in the day of doom;
For the word of God is quick, and speedy in working, and more able to pierce than any twain-edged sword, and stretcheth forth [till] to the parting of the soul and of the spirit, and of the jointures and marrows, and [it is the] deemer of thoughts, and of intents of hearts.
And no creature is invisible in the sight of God. For all things be naked and open to his eyes, to whom a word to us.
Responsabilidade pessoal
Quem é sábio prevê o perigo e se esconde. A Palavra examina os pensamentos e intenções do coração.
A fell man seeth evil, and hideth himself; and an innocent man passed, and he was tormented by harm.
If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise to thyself, and to thy neighbours. Forsooth if thou art a scorner, thou alone shalt bear evil.
Falling of man is to make avow [or vow] to saints, and afterward to withdraw the vows.
If a soul, that is, man, sinneth, and heareth the voice of an oath, and is witness, that is, required to bear witnessing of a thing that he knoweth, for either he saw, either is witting, if he showeth not, but hideth the truth, he shall bear his sin.
A soul, that is, a man, that sinneth by ignorance, and doeth one of these things that be forbidden in the law of the Lord, and is guilty of [the] sin, and understandeth his wickedness,
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart, but reprove thou him openly, lest thou have sin on him.
Consequências inevitáveis
A terra deu seu fruto conforme as obras dos que nela habitam. Ninguém escapa do juízo — Deus pesa cada ação.
And [the] earth shall be into desolation for her dwellers, and for fruit of the thoughts of them.
And they shall give your great trespass on you; and ye shall bear the sins of your idols, and ye shall know, that I am the Lord God.
for I shall seek the blood of your lives, of the hand of all unreasonable beasts and of the hand of man, of the hand of man and of his brother, I shall seek the life of man.
For what thing stirred the wicked man God to wrath? for he said in his heart, God shall not seek.
Thou seest, for thou beholdest travail and sorrow; that thou take them into thine hands. The poor man is left to thee; thou shalt be an helper to the fatherless and motherless.