Or don’t you know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? Since this is true, aren’t you able to judge small cases?

岂不知圣徒要审判世界吗？若世界为你们所审，难道你们不配审判这最小的事吗？

你们岂不知圣徒要审判世界吗？若世界要受你们的审判，难道你们不配审判这最小的事吗？

你们岂不知圣徒要审判世界吗？若世界要受你们的审判，难道你们不配审判这最小的事吗？

难道你们不知道圣徒将来要审判这世界吗？既然这世界也要由你们审判，难道你们不能审理这些小事吗？

你们不知道圣徒要审判世界吗？既然世界要由你们来审判，难道你们不配审判这些最小的事吗？

难道你们不知道，圣徒将要审判这世界吗？如果连世界都要被你们审判，难道你们还不配审理这些最小的事吗？

豈不知聖徒要審判世界嗎？若世界為你們所審，難道你們不配審判這最小的事嗎？

你們豈不知聖徒要審判世界嗎？若世界要受你們的審判，難道你們不配審判這最小的事嗎？

你們豈不知聖徒要審判世界嗎？若世界要受你們的審判，難道你們不配審判這最小的事嗎？

難道你們不知道聖徒將來要審判這世界嗎？既然這世界也要由你們審判，難道你們不能審理這些小事嗎？

你們不知道聖徒要審判世界嗎？既然世界要由你們來審判，難道你們不配審判這些最小的事嗎？

豈不知聖徒要審判世界麼？世界尚且要在你們中間受審判，難道你們還不配做極小事的法庭麼？

難道你們不知道，聖徒將要審判這世界嗎？如果連世界都要被你們審判，難道你們還不配審理這些最小的事嗎？

豈不知聖徒將鞫世乎、世且為爾鞫、而不堪鞫細事乎、

豈不知聖徒將以鞫世、世且為爾鞫、而謂不當鞫小事乎、

豈不知聖徒將審判世界乎、世界既為爾審判、爾不堪審判小事乎、

爾豈不知聖徒必將審判世界乎？世界尚受爾審判、豈曰不能處理細事乎？

Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?

Don’t you realize that someday we believers will judge the world? And since you are going to judge the world, can’t you decide even these little things among yourselves?

Or don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the trivial cases?

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to form the smallest law courts?

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Or don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest cases?

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to settle trivial suits?

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Then you will eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. And you will sit on thrones, judging the 12 tribes of Israel.

“ What I’m about to tell you is true,” Jesus said to them.“ When all things are made new, the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne. Then you who have followed me will also sit on 12 thrones. You will judge the 12 tribes of Israel.

But then the Eternal God came. He decided in favor of his holy people. So the time came when the kingdom was given to them.

I saw thrones. Those who had been given authority to judge were sitting on them. I also saw the souls of those whose heads had been cut off. They had been killed because they had spoken what was true about Jesus. They had also been killed because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its statue. They had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. They came to life and ruled with Christ for 1,000 years.

‘ Here is what I will do for anyone who has victory over sin. I will give that person the right to sit with me on my throne. In the same way, I had victory. Then I sat down with my Father on his throne.

‘ Here is what I will do for anyone who has victory over sin. I will do it for anyone who carries out my plans to the end. I will give that person authority over the nations.It is written,“ They will rule them with an iron scepter. They will break them to pieces like clay pots.”( Psalm 2:9) Their authority is like the authority I’ve received from my Father.

But the holy people of the Most High God will receive the kingdom. They will possess it forever. It will belong to them for ever and ever.’

Let his faithful people be filled with joy because of that honor. Let them sing for joy even when they are lying in bed.May they praise God with their mouths. May they hold in their hands a sword that has two edges.Let them pay the nations back. Let them punish the people of the earth.Let them put the kings of those nations in chains. Let them put their nobles in iron chains.Let them carry out God’s sentence against those nations. This will bring glory to all his faithful people. Praise the Lord.

May the Lord give you strength in your hearts. Then you will be holy and without blame in the sight of our God and Father. May that be true when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.

So suppose you disagree with one another in matters like this. Who do you ask to decide which of you is right? Do you ask people who live in a way the church disapproves of? Of course not!

So we don’t spend all our time looking at what we can see. Instead, we look at what we can’t see. That’s because what can be seen lasts only a short time. But what can’t be seen will last forever.

They are like sheep and will end up in the grave. Death will be their shepherd. But when honest people come to power, a new day will dawn. The bodies of sinners will waste away in the grave. They will end up far away from their princely houses.

Enoch was the seventh man in the family line of Adam. He gave a prophecy about these people. He said,“ Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones.He is coming to judge everyone. He is coming to sentence all of them. He will judge them for all the ungodly acts they have done. They have done them in ungodly ways. He will sentence ungodly sinners for all the things they have said to oppose him.”

The people will run away through that mountain valley. It will reach all the way to Azel. They’ll run away just as they ran from the earthquake when Uzziah was king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come. All the holy ones will come with him.

Here is what people who belong to this world do. They try to satisfy what their sinful desires want to do. They long for what their sinful eyes look at. They take pride in what they have and what they do. All of this comes from the world. None of it comes from the Father.The world and its evil desires are passing away. But whoever does what God wants them to do lives forever.