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V e r s e b y V e r s e
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This Rock
Volume 3, Number 9
 September 1992 
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It isn't enough just to "accept Jesus as personal Lord and Savior." If you want to be saved, you also have to work at it. You'll be judged not just on what you believe, but on what you do.
"You are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and revelation of the last judgment of God, who will repay everyone according to his works: eternal life to those who seek glory, honor, and immortality through perseverance in good works, but wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth and obey wickedness" (Rom. 2:5-8).
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive recompense, according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil" (2 Cor. 5:10).
"Their end will correspond to their deeds" (2 Cor. 11:15).
"Whatever you do, do from the heart, as for the Lord and not for others, knowing that you will receive from the Lord the due payment of the inheritance; be slaves of the Lord Christ. For the wrongdoer will receive recompense for the wrong he committed, and there is no partiality" (Col. 3:24-25).
"Now if you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one's works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning" (1 Pet. 1:17).
"Then another scroll was opened, the book of life. The dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the scrolls. The sea gave up its dead; then Death and Hades gave up their dead. All the dead were judged according to their deeds" (Rev. 20:12-13).
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