<p>2:6&nbsp;<i>Who will render </i><i>to every man according to his works</i>- The emphasis is perhaps on &ldquo;will&rdquo;, for Paul is addressing the subconscious mentality that we ourselves can escape judgment (see on 2:3). &ldquo;Render&rdquo; is the same word translated &ldquo;to give account&rdquo;- we shall &ldquo;give account&rdquo; at the day of judgment (Mt. 12:36; Heb. 13:17; 1 Pet. 4:5), &ldquo;render&rdquo; s.w. to God the fruits of our lives (Mt. 21:41). So God&rsquo;s rendering of account to us is really our rendering of account to Him- we are our own judges, we are working out the verdict now by our attitudes and actions. &ldquo;Render&rdquo; is &lsquo;to give account&rsquo;. It would seem that in some sense, there will be a &lsquo;going through&rsquo; of all our deeds, and an account given by God related to each of them. How this shall happen is unclear&nbsp;(e.g. through the past flooding before our eyes like a movie, which is frequently stopped for us to comment upon). But in some sense it will happen, in that not one human deed performed or thought by those responsible to Divine judgment will as it were slip away unnoticed. This isn&rsquo;t only sobering, but also comforting.&nbsp;It is God who will render to each person their account- therefore we should not sit as judges (the context of 2:1).</p><p>The judgement of works must be squared against the fact that we each receive a penny a day, salvation by grace. Our salvation itself is by grace, but the nature of our eternity, how many cities we rule over, how brightly we shine as stars, will be appropriate to our deeds in this life. Or it may be that in the context here, the &ldquo;deeds&rdquo; which will be judged are our condemnation of others. This, as explained in 2:1-3, is as bad as the &ldquo;deeds&rdquo; being condemned by us; and so there&rsquo;s a telling appropriacy in styling such condemnations &ldquo;deeds&rdquo;, as if they are the actual deed performed.</p>