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Ecclesiastes 12

Eccl. 12:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
shall bring
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
every work
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
into judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
c, with every secret thing
`alam (Hebrew #5956)
to veil from sight, i.e. conceal (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X any ways, blind, dissembler, hide (self), secret (thing).
Pronounce: aw-lam'
Origin: a primitive root
, whether it be good
towb (Hebrew #2896)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
Pronounce: tobe
Origin: from 2895
, or whether it be evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
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Acts 17:31• 31because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the habitable earth in righteousness by the man whom he has appointed, giving the proof of it to all in having raised him from among the dead. (Acts 17:31)
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2 Cor. 5:10• 10For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body, according to those he has done, whether it be good or evil. (2 Cor. 5:10)

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Eccl. 11:9• 9Rejoice, young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. (Eccl. 11:9)
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Psa. 96:13• 13Before Jehovah, for he cometh; for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness. (Psa. 96:13)
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Matt. 12:36• 36But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day: (Matt. 12:36)
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Matt. 25:31‑46• 31But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit down upon his throne of glory,
 32and all the nations shall be gathered before him; and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;
 33and he will set the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left.
 34Then shall the King say to those on his right hand, Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the world's foundation:
 35for I hungered, and ye gave me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;
 36naked, and ye clothed me; I was ill, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came to me.
 37Then shall the righteous answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished thee; or thirsting, and gave thee to drink?
 38and when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in; or naked, and clothed thee?
 39and when saw we thee ill, or in prison, and came to thee?
 40And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.
 41Then shall he say also to those on the left, Go from me, cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
 42for I hungered, and ye gave me not to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me not to drink;
 43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye did not clothe me; ill, and in prison, and ye did not visit me.
 44Then shall *they* also answer saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or ill, or in prison, and have not ministered to thee?
 45Then shall he answer them saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have not done it to one of these least, neither have ye done it to me.
 46And these shall go away into eternal punishment, and the righteous into life eternal. (Matt. 25:31‑46)
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Luke 12:1‑2• 1In those times, the myriads of the crowd being gathered together, so that they trod one on another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;
 2but there is nothing covered up which shall not be revealed, nor secret that shall not be known; (Luke 12:1‑2)
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John 5:29• 29and shall go forth; those that have practised good, to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil, to resurrection of judgment. (John 5:29)
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Acts 17:30‑31• 30God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,
 31because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the habitable earth in righteousness by the man whom he has appointed, giving the proof of it to all in having raised him from among the dead. (Acts 17:30‑31)
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Rom. 2:16• 16in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my glad tidings, by Jesus Christ. (Rom. 2:16)
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Rom. 14:10‑12• 10But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment-seat of God.
 11For it is written, *I* live, saith the Lord, that to me shall bow every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God.
 12So then each of us shall give an account concerning himself to God. (Rom. 14:10‑12)
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1 Cor. 4:5• 5So that do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have his praise from God. (1 Cor. 4:5)
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2 Cor. 5:10• 10For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body, according to those he has done, whether it be good or evil. (2 Cor. 5:10)
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Rev. 20:11‑15• 11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled, and place was not found for them.
 12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is that of life. And the dead were judged out of the things written in the books according to their works.
 13And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged each according to their works:
 14and death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire.
 15And if any one was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:11‑15)
• {It} speaks with perfect assurance of a discriminative judgment where every single work, yes, “secret thing,” shall be shown out in its true character as it is good or evil in His holy sight: where everything that is wrong and distorted here shall be put right. (“Ecclesiastes 12” by F.C. Jennings)
• Meditate on the scene at this last verse in the only book in our Bible in which man at his best and highest, in his richest and wisest, is heard telling us his exercises as he looks at this tangled state of affairs “under the sun” and gives us to see, as nowhere else can we see, the very utmost limit to which he, as such, can attain. If this sinks down into our hearts, we shall be the better prepared to apprehend and appreciate the grace that meets him there at the edge of that precipice to which Reason leads but which she cannot bridge. (“Ecclesiastes 12” by F.C. Jennings)
• Even the deepest, most awful terror of all to sinners such as we ―the Judgment-seat―has given us new cause for still more joyful singing; for we have in that pure clear light recognized in God―our Creator-God, our Redeemer-God―a love so full, so true―working with a wisdom so infinite, so pure―in perfect harmony with a righteousness so unbending, so inflexible, with a holiness not to be flecked or tarnished by a breath―all combining to put us at joyful ease in the very presence of judgment―to find there, as nowhere else possible, all that is in God in His infinity told out, (“love with us made perfect,”) and that means that all the creatures’ responsive love must find sweet relief in a song that it will take eternity itself to end. (“Ecclesiastes 12” by F.C. Jennings)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.