Matthew 16:27
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For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
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For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels--in the splendor of His Father's authority and with all His angelic ministers, ready to execute His pleasure. and then he shall reward, &c.
Open source ↗None of Christ's miracles are recorded in this chapter, but four of his discourses. Here is, I. A conference with the Pharisees, who challenged him to show them a sign from heaven (Mat 16:1-4). II. Another with his disciples about the leaven of the Pharisees (Mat 16:5-12). III. Another with them concerning himself, as the Christ, and concerning his church built upon him (Mat 16:13-20). IV. Another concerning his sufferings for them, and theirs for him (Mat 16:21-28). And all these are written for our learning.
Open source ↗16:27 The exhortation to deny oneself and follow Jesus is rooted in the fact that Jesus will return to judge all people according to their deeds (see 19:28; 24:29-31; 25:31; Ps 62:12; Prov 24:12).
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and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”
So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?
For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.