16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
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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.
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.
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)In the former chapter the apostle had represented the state of the Gentile world to be as bad and black as the Jews were ready enough to pronounce it. And now, designing to show that the state of the Jews was very bad too, and their sin in many respects more aggravated, to prepare his way he sets himself in this part of the chapter to show that God would proceed upon equal terms of justice with Je…
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