Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Bible References

Fruit

Jeremiah 21:14

“But I will punish you in accordance with the [appropriate] consequences of your decisions and your actions,” says the Lord.
“I will kindle a fire in your forest,
And it will devour all that is around you.”’”
Jeremiah 32:19
great [are You] in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to reward or repay each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds;
Isaiah 3:10

Say to the righteous that it will go well with them,
For they will eat the fruit of their [righteous] actions.
Micah 7:13

Yet the earth [beyond the land of Israel] shall become desolate because of those who dwell in it,
Because of the fruit of their deeds.
Romans 6:21
So what benefit did you get at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? [None!] For the outcome of those things is death!
Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked [He will not allow Himself to be ridiculed, nor treated with contempt nor allow His precepts to be scornfully set aside]; for whatever a man sows, this and this only is what he will reap.

General references

Job 34:21

“For God’s eyes are on the ways of a man,
And He sees all his steps.
Proverbs 5:21

For the ways of man are directly before the eyes of the Lord,
And He carefully watches all of his paths [all of his comings and goings].
Proverbs 17:3

The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
But the Lord tests hearts.
Romans 2:6
He will pay back to each person according to his deeds [justly, as his deeds deserve]:
Galatians 6:5
For every person will have to bear [with patience] his own burden [of faults and shortcomings for which he alone is responsible].