Transcript ARE THERE DEGREES OF REWARDS AND PUNISHMENT IN ETERNITY? Psalm 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne.

ARE THERE DEGREES OF REWARDS
AND PUNISHMENT IN ETERNITY?
Psalm 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the
foundation of Your throne
Isaiah 55:8 " For My thoughts are not your
thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the
LORD. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the
earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And
My thoughts than your thoughts.
Matthew 25:46 "And these will go away into
everlasting punishment, but the righteous into
eternal life."
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His
promise, as some count slackness, but is
longsuffering toward us, not willing that any
should perish but that all should come to
repentance.
Hebrews 5:8 though He was a Son, yet He learned
obedience by the things which He suffered. 9
And having been perfected, He became the
author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,
James 2:24 You see then that a man is justified
by works, and not by faith only. 25 Likewise, was
not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when
she received the messengers and sent them out
another way? 26 For as the body without the
spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we
keep His commandments. And His
commandments are not burdensome.
Are there degrees of rewards in heaven?
Matthew 20:8 "So when evening had come, the owner of
the vineyard said to his steward, 'Call the laborers and
give them their wages, beginning with the last to the
first.' 9 "And when those came who were hired about the
eleventh hour, they each received a denarius. 10 "But
when the first came, they supposed that they would
receive more; and they likewise received each a denarius.
11 "And when they had received it, they complained
against the landowner, 12 "saying, 'These last men have
worked only one hour, and you made them equal to us
who have borne the burden and the heat of the day.' 13
"But he answered one of them and said, 'Friend, I am
doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a
denarius? 14 'Take what is yours and go your way. I wish
to give to this last man the same as to you. 15 'Is it not
lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is
your eye evil because I am good?' 16 "So the last will be
first, and the first last. For many are called, but few
Matthew 19:27 "See, we have left all and
followed You. Therefore what shall we have?"
Matthew 19:28 So Jesus said to them, "Assuredly
I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the
Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you
who have followed Me will also sit on twelve
thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29
"And everyone who has left houses or brothers or
sisters or father or mother or wife or children or
lands, for My name's sake, shall receive a
hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. 30 "But
many who are first will be last, and the last first.
Matthew 5:11 "Blessed are you when they revile
and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil
against you falsely for My sake. 12 "Rejoice and
be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in
heaven, …
Matthew 6:1 "Take heed that you do not do your charitable
deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no
reward from your Father in heaven. 2 "Therefore, when you
do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the
hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they
may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have
their reward. 3 "But when you do a charitable deed, do not let
your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 "that
your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who
sees in secret will Himself reward you openly. 5 " And when
you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to
pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the
streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you,
they have their reward. 6 "But you, when you pray, go into
your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your
Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in
secret will reward you openly.
Matthew 6:16 " Moreover, when you fast, do not
be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance.
For they disfigure their faces that they may
appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to
you, they have their reward. 17 "But you, when
you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
18 "so that you do not appear to men to be
fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret
place; and your Father who sees in secret will
reward you openly.
Matthew 6:20 "but lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
destroys and where thieves do not break in and
steal.
ESV Matthew 16:27 For the Son of Man is going to
come with his angels in the glory of his Father,
and then he will repay (reward NKV) each person
according to what he has done.
The preposition kata (“according to”) implies a
norm, standard by which “rewards or
punishments are given”
Matthew 25:14 " For the kingdom of heaven is like a man
traveling to a far country, who called his own servants
and delivered his goods to them. 15 "And to one he gave
five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each
according to his own ability; and immediately he went on
a journey. 16 "Then he who had received the five talents
went and traded with them, and made another five
talents. 17 "And likewise he who had received two gained
two more also. 18 "But he who had received one went
and dug in the ground, and hid his lord's money. 19
"After a long time the lord of those servants came and
settled accounts with them. 20 "So he who had received
five talents came and brought five other talents, saying,
'Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained
five more talents besides them.'
21 "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful
servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make
you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your
lord.' 22 "He also who had received two talents came and
said, 'Lord, you delivered to me two talents; look, I have
gained two more talents besides them.' 23 "His lord said
to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have
been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over
many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.' 24 "Then he
who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I
knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not
sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed.
25 'And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the
ground. Look, there you have what is yours.'
26 "But his lord answered and said to him, 'You wicked
and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not
sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. 27 'So
you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers,
and at my coming I would have received back my own
with interest. 28 'Therefore take the talent from him, and
give it to him who has ten talents. 29 'For to everyone
who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance;
but from him who does not have, even what he has will be
taken away. 30 'And cast the unprofitable servant into
the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing
of teeth.'
Proverbs 24:12 If you say, "Surely we did not
know this," Does not He who weighs the hearts
consider it? He who keeps your soul, does He not
know it? And will He not render to each man
according to his deeds?
Daniel 12:3 Those who are wise shall shine Like
the brightness of the firmament, And those who
turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever
and ever.
Albert Barnes noted that the suggestion is that
the righteous will “be honored in proportion to
their toils, their sacrifices, and their success”
(Notes on Daniel, New York: Leavitt & Allen,
1853, p. 450).
Another scholar has written that the glorious
reward of the righteous “is in proportion to the
works that are done” (H.C. Leupold, Exposition of
Daniel, Grand Rapids: Baker, 1969, p. 532).
Matthew 20:23 So He said to them, "You will
indeed drink My cup, and be baptized with the
baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on My
right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but
it is for those for whom it is prepared by My
Father."
Are there degrees of punishment?
Matthew 11:20 Then He began to rebuke the cities in
which most of His mighty works had been done, because
they did not repent: 21 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to
you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done
in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have
repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 "But I say
to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the
day of judgment than for you. 23 "And you, Capernaum,
who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to
Hades; for if the mighty works which were done in you
had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until
this day. 24 "But I say to you that it shall be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment
than for you."
Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, "Who then is that faithful
and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over
his household, to give them their portion of food in due
season? 43 "Blessed is that servant whom his master will
find so doing when he comes. 44 "Truly, I say to you that
he will make him ruler over all that he has. 45 "But if that
servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his
coming,' and begins to beat the male and female servants,
and to eat and drink and be drunk, 46 "the master of that
servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him,
and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in
two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
47 "And that servant who knew his master's will,
and did not prepare himself or do according to his
will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 "But
he who did not know, yet committed things
deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For
everyone to whom much is given, from him much
will be required; and to whom much has been
committed, of him they will ask the more.
John 19:11 "You could have no power at all
against Me unless it had been given you from
above. Therefore the one who delivered Me to
you has the greater sin."
Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have
received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer
remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful
expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will
devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected
Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or
three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do
you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled
the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the
covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and
insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who
said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord. And
again, "The LORD will judge His people." 31 It is a fearful
thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
2 Peter 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the
pollutions of the world through the knowledge of
the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again
entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is
worse for them than the beginning. 21 For it
would have been better for them not to have
known the way of righteousness, than having
known it, to turn from the holy commandment
delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to
them according to the true proverb: "A dog
returns to his own vomit," and, "a sow, having
washed, to her wallowing in the mire."
1 Corinthians 9:24 Do you not know that those
who run in a race all run, but one receives the
prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.
25 And everyone who competes for the prize is
temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a
perishable crown, but we for an imperishable
crown.