2 Tawarikh 6:23

6:23 listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve. ¹ 

Ayub 34:11

34:11 For he repays a person for his work, ² 

and according to the conduct of a person,

he causes the consequences to find him. ³ 

Mazmur 62:1

Psalm 62 ⁴ 

For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of David.

62:1 For God alone I patiently wait; ⁵ 

he is the one who delivers me. ⁶ 

Yeremia 17:10

17:10 I, the Lord, probe into people’s minds.

I examine people’s hearts. ⁷ 

I deal with each person according to how he has behaved.

I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.

Yehezkiel 18:20

18:20 The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer ⁸  for his father’s iniquity, and a father will not suffer ⁹  for his son’s iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness. ¹⁰ 

Yehezkiel 18:1

Individual Retribution

18:1 The word of the Lord came to me:

1 Korintus 3:12-15

3:12 If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, ¹¹  3:13 each builder’s ¹²  work will be plainly seen, for the Day ¹³  will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire ¹⁴  will test what kind of work each has done. 3:14 If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward. 3:15 If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss. ¹⁵  He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

1 Korintus 3:2

3:2 I fed you milk, ¹⁶  not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

1 Korintus 5:10

5:10 In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.

1 Korintus 1:12

1:12 Now I mean this, that ¹⁷  each of you is saying, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” or “I am with Cephas,” or “I am with Christ.”

[6:23]  ¹ tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by repaying the guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”

[34:11]  ² tn Heb “for the work of man, he [= God] repays him.”

[34:11]  ³ tn Heb “he causes it to find him.” The text means that God will cause a man to find (or receive) the consequences of his actions.

[62:1]  ⁴ sn Psalm 62. The psalmist expresses his unwavering confidence in God’s justice and in his ability to protect his people.

[62:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “only for God [is] there silence [to] my soul.”

[62:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “from him [is] my deliverance.”

[17:10]  ⁷ tn The term rendered “mind” here and in the previous verse is actually the Hebrew word for “heart.” However, in combination with the word rendered “heart” in the next line, which is the Hebrew for “kidneys,” it is best rendered “mind” because the “heart” was considered the center of intellect, conscience, and will and the “kidneys” the center of emotions.

[17:10]  sn For an earlier reference to this motif see Jer 11:20. For a later reference see Jer 20:12. See also Ps 17:2-3.

[18:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “lift up, bear.”

[18:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “lift up, bear.”

[18:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the righteousness of the righteous one will be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked one will be upon him.”

[3:12]  ¹¹ sn The various materials described here, both valuable (gold, silver, precious stones) and worthless (wood, hay, or straw) refer to the quality of work built on the foundation, or possibly to the motivation of those doing the building. The materials themselves have been understood (1) as deeds or (2) as people (since ultimately the passage is addressing those who minister to others).

[3:13]  ¹² tn Grk “each one’s.” Here “builder’s” is employed in the translation for clarity.

[3:13]  ¹³ tn In an attempt to clarify the referent, some translations add “of Christ” after “Day” (so TEV); others specify this as “judgment day” (NLT) or “the day of judgment” (CEV).

[3:13]  sn The Day refers to the Day of the Lord Jesus Christ (cf. 1:8; 5:5) when each Christian worker will appear before Christ for evaluation of his ministry. Paul’s constant motivation was to be pleasing to the Lord in that day (2 Cor 5:9-10) and receive his commendation (1 Cor 4:5).

[3:13]  ¹⁴ tc ‡ αὐτό (auto) is found at this point in v. 13 in a number of significant witnesses, including A B C P 33 1739 al. But Ì⁴⁶ א D Ψ 0289 1881 Ï latt lack it. The pronoun could be a motivated reading, designed to intensify Paul’s statement. On the other hand, it could have been deleted because the article alone made the reference already clear. In this instance, the possibility of scribal addition seems more likely than scribal deletion, although a decision is difficult. NA²⁷ includes the word in brackets, indicating doubt as to its authenticity.

[3:13]  sn It is unclear whether the phrase it will be revealed by fire describes the Day (subject of the previous clause) or each one’s work (subject of the clause before that).

[3:15]  ¹⁵ tn The translation “[will] be punished” is given here by BDAG 428 s.v. ζημιόω 2. But the next clause says “he will be delivered” and so “suffering loss” is more likely to refer to the destruction of the “work” by fire or the loss of the reward that could have been gained.

[3:2]  ¹⁶ sn Milk refers figuratively to basic or elementary Christian teaching. Paul’s point was that the Corinthian believers he was writing to here were not mature enough to receive more advanced teaching. This was not a problem at the time, when they were recent converts, but the problem now is that they are still not ready.

[1:12]  ¹⁷ tn Or “And I say this because.”