“‘Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord God.
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.
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