But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
God gives glory and honor and peace to every person who does good, whether Jew first or Gentile, because He judges each individual impartially according to deeds and truth with no favoritism for position or race. This stands opposite to what falls on every soul that does evil, which is wrath and indignation and tribulation and anguish, especially for those who resist truth and harden the heart in unrighteousness. The reward belongs to those who by patient continuance in well doing seek glory and honor and immortality, and its end is eternal life. No one is justified by merely hearing the law, but only its doers, so each is judged by whether truth is practiced in life and strict obedience to all the commandments. The rendering comes at the day of revelation of righteous judgment, when Christ comes with His reward after probation ends, giving well-being and peace to the obedient and uncompromising penalty and second death to the disobedient. Those purchased to do good are therefore to enter the work without excuse, employing every lent gift in service to others and turning from selfish ambition to become as little children in humility and usefulness.
Righteous Judgment Without Partiality
Glory, honour, and peace belong to every person who works good, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile, because God renders to every person according to deeds and according to truth with no respect of persons. His teaching and judgment are individual, counting person by person, so every individual is brought within reach of oneness with God and immortality regardless of position, color, poverty, race, or standing. The reward is the life set before all for choice, the same as glory and honour and immortality sought and found.
It stands in direct contrast to what comes upon every soul that does evil, which is indignation and wrath and tribulation and anguish, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile. That wrath falls especially upon those who are contentious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness. By hardness and impenitent heart they treasure up wrath against themselves, while goodness and forbearance and long-suffering would lead them to repentance.
The reward belongs to those who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, and its end is eternal life. It applies to rich and poor without distinction and gives encouragement to teach even wealthy and honorable people to seek the eternal weight of glory.
The judgment applies the law impartially, so as many as have sinned without law shall perish without law and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law, for not the hearers of the law are just before God but the doers of the law shall be justified. Every person is therefore judged by whether truth is practiced in life, in words, and in actions, which requires strict obedience to all the commandments, with no vindication for any soul who continues in transgression and sin. God thereby makes a difference between those who serve Him in faithful obedience and those who do not, showing peculiar and inextinguishable love to obedient children.
The rendering takes place at the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment, at Christ's soon coming with His reward to give every person according as work has been. It comes after the test over the law when people have taken sides for or against it and the season of mercy and probation is ended, when God moves in straight justice to give every person as works have been. Then some receive the reward of well doing with well-being and peace and others receive the reward of evil deeds, with uncompromising penalty for the disobedient who make void the law, the second death without hope of resurrection, for the good of the universe and of the sinner.
Punishment is proportionate to light received and advantages given, so those greatly favored with truth and peculiar advantages and gifts to shine to others receive greater and conspicuous punishment if they contend against God. This includes those who in blindness do what they know is contrary to truth, turn from God's way to their own way, turn the truth of God into a lie, misuse opportunities, neglect good they might have done, and lead others astray in perversity. God calls them to account for all of this and makes their punishment conspicuous to show to all that He is a God of justice whose ways are equal.
The final discerning becomes fully plain when those who fear God are written in a book of remembrance and kept as jewels and spared as a serving son, while the proud and wicked are burned as stubble leaving neither root nor branch and those who fear His name receive healing and growth. To the worker of good God gives peace and comfort in this life and everlasting glory in the life to come, while to the wicked He gives confusion and unrest now and everlasting shame. On the same terms white and black of whatever nationality under the same law have the same offer of salvation and the same heaven, with distinctions of society fading at the cross, for God does not favor the most favored to the neglect of colored people and lower-grade white people but accepts and forgives sinners of both races who believe, receiving them as sons and daughters and raising them to the hope of the higher life when Christ comes.
Faithful Living and Witness
Glory, honor, and peace belong to every individual who works good, Jew first and also Gentile, because through faith each person is brought within reach of oneness with God and immortality, with no respect of persons. This is what human beings were purchased by blood to become, partakers of the divine nature and members of the royal family as sons and daughters of the heavenly King. It is received by drawing near to Christ and opening the heart to receive Him and become one with Him, having escaped the corruption in the world through lust. When the will is directed toward God and what is right and committed to Him, the fruits of the Spirit appear in the life. That life follows step by step onward, upward, heavenward, grafted into the living vine and bearing fruit to the glory of God.
The promise calls every believer to enter into the work, neglecting no duty temporal or spiritual, employing ability in doing good to others and bringing lives into accordance with Christ's principles. Those bought by the blood of the Son cannot be excused from faithful service, for every true Christian is a co-worker with Christ. Crippling or abusing the gifts lent for His service is offensive to God, because the value of the soul is estimated by the price paid for it. By patient continuance in well doing in this service, seekers after glory and honor and immortality receive eternal life.
The same promise gives encouragement to work earnestly for wealthy and honorable people as well as for others, in the highways as well as in the byways, teaching them to seek eternal glory. No distinction of rich and poor limits the offer, and every effort should be made to save those honored by the world. If they accept Christ they receive the very highest honor, which the world can neither give nor take away. That honor is peace and happiness and joy, the robe of His righteousness spotless as the pure white lily, keeping of the commandments with exceeding great reward, a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, and a life measuring with the life of God. As overcomers they will be crowned in the kingdom to walk with Christ in white.
It is the portion of those who accept the invitation to the gospel feast and respond to the riches of God's goodness and forbearance and long-suffering leading to repentance. It belongs to those who do the God-given work in sincerity and faith in harmony with God, with heart consecrated to His service. Such workers go where Providence leads and speak the words given them, giving to others the riches of Christ. They persevere through obstacles, difficulties, and opposition without discouragement until character is formed after the divine pattern. Those who for years neglect to know God and refuse the invitation lose Jesus, miss the light of the world by disobedience, and never know how terrible the loss sustained is.
Against selfishness, pride, ambition, and strife for first place and self-exaltation, the promise calls for conversion to become as little children, esteeming others better than self and being servant of all in goodness, usefulness, and honor. It stands opposite tribulation and anguish upon every soul that does evil and indignation and wrath upon those who are contentious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness. God does not help people in transgression but punishes disregard of warning and reproof and defiance of the law of His kingdom. Therefore it condemns all who have had truth laid before them yet continue what Scripture condemns, including unfaithful stewards whose selfish, oppressive example caused others to lose the true sense of God and His holy commandments and gave occasion to misinterpret God.
The promise is a warning in a time of widespread ungodliness and approaching judgment when the faith of church members is tested, since each person will be judged according to deeds. It appeals to feel responsible before God and to turn from conduct that separates people from Him. Judging the characters of fellow people is not given to humans but to Christ alone, because He lived humanity and alone understands human weakness and human striving to attain perfection. Though counterfeits are in every church and the militant church of wheat and tares is not yet triumphant, both must grow together until the harvest without taking judgment into human hands.
God gives glory and honor and peace to every person who does good, whether Jew first or Gentile, because He judges each individual impartially according to deeds and truth with no favoritism for position or race. This stands opposite to what falls on every soul that does evil, which is wrath and indignation and tribulation and anguish, especially for those who resist truth and harden the heart in unrighteousness. The reward belongs to those who by patient continuance in well doing seek glory and honor and immortality, and its end is eternal life. No one is justified by merely hearing the law, but only its doers, so each is judged by whether truth is practiced in life and strict obedience to all the commandments. The rendering comes at the day of revelation of righteous judgment, when Christ comes with His reward after probation ends, giving well-being and peace to the obedient and uncompromising penalty and second death to the disobedient. Those purchased to do good are therefore to enter the work without excuse, employing every lent gift in service to others and turning from selfish ambition to become as little children in humility and usefulness.
Righteous Judgment Without Partiality
Glory, honour, and peace belong to every person who works good, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile, because God renders to every person according to deeds and according to truth with no respect of persons. His teaching and judgment are individual, counting person by person, so every individual is brought within reach of oneness with God and immortality regardless of position, color, poverty, race, or standing. The reward is the life set before all for choice, the same as glory and honour and immortality sought and found.
It stands in direct contrast to what comes upon every soul that does evil, which is indignation and wrath and tribulation and anguish, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile. That wrath falls especially upon those who are contentious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness. By hardness and impenitent heart they treasure up wrath against themselves, while goodness and forbearance and long-suffering would lead them to repentance.
The reward belongs to those who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, and its end is eternal life. It applies to rich and poor without distinction and gives encouragement to teach even wealthy and honorable people to seek the eternal weight of glory.
The judgment applies the law impartially, so as many as have sinned without law shall perish without law and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law, for not the hearers of the law are just before God but the doers of the law shall be justified. Every person is therefore judged by whether truth is practiced in life, in words, and in actions, which requires strict obedience to all the commandments, with no vindication for any soul who continues in transgression and sin. God thereby makes a difference between those who serve Him in faithful obedience and those who do not, showing peculiar and inextinguishable love to obedient children.
The rendering takes place at the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment, at Christ's soon coming with His reward to give every person according as work has been. It comes after the test over the law when people have taken sides for or against it and the season of mercy and probation is ended, when God moves in straight justice to give every person as works have been. Then some receive the reward of well doing with well-being and peace and others receive the reward of evil deeds, with uncompromising penalty for the disobedient who make void the law, the second death without hope of resurrection, for the good of the universe and of the sinner.
Punishment is proportionate to light received and advantages given, so those greatly favored with truth and peculiar advantages and gifts to shine to others receive greater and conspicuous punishment if they contend against God. This includes those who in blindness do what they know is contrary to truth, turn from God's way to their own way, turn the truth of God into a lie, misuse opportunities, neglect good they might have done, and lead others astray in perversity. God calls them to account for all of this and makes their punishment conspicuous to show to all that He is a God of justice whose ways are equal.
The final discerning becomes fully plain when those who fear God are written in a book of remembrance and kept as jewels and spared as a serving son, while the proud and wicked are burned as stubble leaving neither root nor branch and those who fear His name receive healing and growth. To the worker of good God gives peace and comfort in this life and everlasting glory in the life to come, while to the wicked He gives confusion and unrest now and everlasting shame. On the same terms white and black of whatever nationality under the same law have the same offer of salvation and the same heaven, with distinctions of society fading at the cross, for God does not favor the most favored to the neglect of colored people and lower-grade white people but accepts and forgives sinners of both races who believe, receiving them as sons and daughters and raising them to the hope of the higher life when Christ comes.
Faithful Living and Witness
Glory, honor, and peace belong to every individual who works good, Jew first and also Gentile, because through faith each person is brought within reach of oneness with God and immortality, with no respect of persons. This is what human beings were purchased by blood to become, partakers of the divine nature and members of the royal family as sons and daughters of the heavenly King. It is received by drawing near to Christ and opening the heart to receive Him and become one with Him, having escaped the corruption in the world through lust. When the will is directed toward God and what is right and committed to Him, the fruits of the Spirit appear in the life. That life follows step by step onward, upward, heavenward, grafted into the living vine and bearing fruit to the glory of God.
The promise calls every believer to enter into the work, neglecting no duty temporal or spiritual, employing ability in doing good to others and bringing lives into accordance with Christ's principles. Those bought by the blood of the Son cannot be excused from faithful service, for every true Christian is a co-worker with Christ. Crippling or abusing the gifts lent for His service is offensive to God, because the value of the soul is estimated by the price paid for it. By patient continuance in well doing in this service, seekers after glory and honor and immortality receive eternal life.
The same promise gives encouragement to work earnestly for wealthy and honorable people as well as for others, in the highways as well as in the byways, teaching them to seek eternal glory. No distinction of rich and poor limits the offer, and every effort should be made to save those honored by the world. If they accept Christ they receive the very highest honor, which the world can neither give nor take away. That honor is peace and happiness and joy, the robe of His righteousness spotless as the pure white lily, keeping of the commandments with exceeding great reward, a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, and a life measuring with the life of God. As overcomers they will be crowned in the kingdom to walk with Christ in white.
It is the portion of those who accept the invitation to the gospel feast and respond to the riches of God's goodness and forbearance and long-suffering leading to repentance. It belongs to those who do the God-given work in sincerity and faith in harmony with God, with heart consecrated to His service. Such workers go where Providence leads and speak the words given them, giving to others the riches of Christ. They persevere through obstacles, difficulties, and opposition without discouragement until character is formed after the divine pattern. Those who for years neglect to know God and refuse the invitation lose Jesus, miss the light of the world by disobedience, and never know how terrible the loss sustained is.
Against selfishness, pride, ambition, and strife for first place and self-exaltation, the promise calls for conversion to become as little children, esteeming others better than self and being servant of all in goodness, usefulness, and honor. It stands opposite tribulation and anguish upon every soul that does evil and indignation and wrath upon those who are contentious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness. God does not help people in transgression but punishes disregard of warning and reproof and defiance of the law of His kingdom. Therefore it condemns all who have had truth laid before them yet continue what Scripture condemns, including unfaithful stewards whose selfish, oppressive example caused others to lose the true sense of God and His holy commandments and gave occasion to misinterpret God.
The promise is a warning in a time of widespread ungodliness and approaching judgment when the faith of church members is tested, since each person will be judged according to deeds. It appeals to feel responsible before God and to turn from conduct that separates people from Him. Judging the characters of fellow people is not given to humans but to Christ alone, because He lived humanity and alone understands human weakness and human striving to attain perfection. Though counterfeits are in every church and the militant church of wheat and tares is not yet triumphant, both must grow together until the harvest without taking judgment into human hands.