Ecclesiastes 12:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Ecclesiastes 12:14 —

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← Ecclesiastes 12:13 Song of Solomon 1:1 →

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Romans 2:16
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Matthew 12:36
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
Matthew 10:26
Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Day Depravity of Man Formalism God Guidance Guilt

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-14)

The great enquiry which Solomon prosecutes in this book is, What is that good which the sons of men should do? Eccl. 2:3. What is the true way to true happiness, the certain means to attain our great end? He had in vain sought it among those things which most men are eager in pursuit of, but here, at length, he has found it, by the help of that discovery which God anciently made to man (Job 28:28)…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. For God shall bring every work into judgment--The future judgment is the test of what is “vanity,” what solid, as regards the chief good, the grand subject of the book.