– Rewards for the former and punishment for the latter are constant throughout the AT:
Gen 18:23 : Abraham approached and said: “Will you make the righteous perish with the wicked?”.
Gen 25:1 : Abraham took another wife, named Cetura.
Ex 23,7 : Abstain from every lying word. Thou shalt not kill the innocent and the just.
Job 8:13 : Thus end all those who forget God, for the hope of the wicked will perish.
Ps 14,5 : Do not lend money with usury, […] Whoever does so will never be shaken.
Ps 34:21 : They opened their mouths wide to me, saying: “Ah! Oh! With our eyes we saw him!”
Ps 37:17 : This is my wish: “Do not rejoice at my loss; do not magnify yourself when my foot slips.”
– Thus, good works obtain the divine reward:
Gen 4,4-5 : And the Lord looked with favor on Abel and on his oblation.
Gen 5:24 : Enoch walked with God and disappeared, because God took him.
Gen 6:8 : Noah, however, found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Gen 8,20-21 : The Lord […] said in his heart: From now on, I will no longer curse the ground because of man.
Gen 22,16-17 : Says the Lord: Because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will bless you.
Ex 1,20 : God benefited the midwives: the people continued to multiply and spread.
Ex 23,22 : But if you obey him punctually, if you do everything I tell you, I will be the enemy of your enemies.
Pr 11:18 : The wicked makes false profit, but he who sows righteousness will receive a sure reward.
Mt 5:12 : Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.
Mt 10:42 : Anyone who gives even just a glass of fresh water […] will not lose his reward.
Mt 16:27 : For the Son of Man will come in glory […] and then he will reward each according to his works.
Mt 25,34-35 : Come, blessed of my Father, take possession of the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
Rom 2 :6: Who will repay each according to his works.
2Cor 5,10 : There each one will receive what he deserved, according to the good or evil he has done.
2Tm 4,8 : It now remains for me to receive the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on that day.
Heb 6:10 : God is not unjust and will not forget your works and the charity you have shown for his name’s sake.
Heb 10,34-35 : Not only did you have compassion on those in prison, but you joyfully accepted the confiscation of your goods.
1Pt 2,5 : And like other living stones, you also become the materials of this spiritual building.
Rev 22:12 : Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give to each according to his works.
– And the bad ones, the punishment:
Gn 3,16-17 : I will multiply the sufferings of your childbirth; you will give birth in pain.
Gen 4 :11-12 : You will be cursed and driven from the land, which opened its mouth to drink your brother’s blood from your hand.
Gn 6,3.5-6 : My spirit will not always remain in man, because he is all flesh.
Gen 7 :4 : Within seven days I will make it rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Gen 9:6 : Anyone who sheds human blood will have his own blood shed by man.
Gen 19:11 : And they smote the men who were outside with blindness, […] who were trying in vain to find the door.
Exodus 31:14 : You shall keep the Sabbath, for it must be holy to you. Whoever violates it will be killed.
Ex 32,33 : The Lord said to Moses: The one who has sinned against me, this one I will erase from my book.
Mt 25,41-42 : Depart from me, you cursed ones! Go into the eternal fire destined for the devil and his angels.
Rom 1,28-29 : God gave them over to depraved feelings, and hence their unworthy behavior.
Gal 5:19-20 : Now the works of the flesh are these: fornication, impurity, licentiousness.
– Jesus, the Christ, the Only Begotten Son of the Father, preaches forgiveness and repentance that come from the intimate heart against the simple exteriority of works:
Mt 18:35 : This is how my heavenly Father will deal with you if each of you does not forgive his brother with all his heart.
Mt 21:31 : And Jesus said to them: “Truly I say to you, the publicans and the harlots go before you into the Kingdom of God!”.
Lk 18,10-14 : The publican […] beat his chest, saying: “O God, have mercy on me, a sinner!”.
Lk 19,2-10 : Today salvation has come to this house […] For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.
Acts 11:18 : Therefore, to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life!
Acts 20:21 I preached conversion to God and faith in our Lord Jesus to Jews and Gentiles.
Acts 26:20 : First I preached to those in Damascus […] that they might repent and turn to God.
Rom 2 : 4 : Do you despise the riches of his goodness, […] not knowing that the goodness of God calls you to repentance?
Heb 6,1 : We do not want now to insist on the fundamental notions of conversion, renunciation of sin, faith in God.
Jas 2,14-15 : What does it profit, brethren, if someone says he has faith, if he does not have works? Can that faith save him?
2Pt 3 :9 : The Lord is not slow in fulfilling his promise […] on the contrary, he wants everyone to repent.
– And teaches not to judge others by mere appearance, because only God scrutinizes the depths of each one:
Mt 7:1 : Do not judge, and you will not be judged.
Lc 6,37 : Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned.
Jo 7,24 : Do not judge by appearance, but judge according to justice.
Jo 8,15 : You judge according to appearance; I don’t judge anyone.
Rom 2,1-11.16 : So you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are, who set yourself up as judge.
Rom 14:1-4 : Whoever does not eat, do not judge the one who eats, because God welcomes him in the same way.
