1 Timothy 5:24
Good News Translation
The sins of some people are plain to see, and their sins go ahead of them to judgment; but the sins of others are seen only later.

New Revised Standard Version
The sins of some people are conspicuous and precede them to judgment, while the sins of others follow them there.

Contemporary English Version
Some people get caught in their sins almost at once, even before the time of judgment. But other people's sins don't show up until later.

New American Bible
Some people’s sins are public, preceding them to judgment; but other people are followed by their sins.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Some men's sins are manifest, going before to judgment: and some men they follow after.

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Some men's sins are manifest, going before to judgment: and some men they follow after.

Jeremiah 2:34 And in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor and innocent? not in ditches have I found them, but in all places, which I mentioned before.

Acts 1:16-20 Men, brethren, the scripture must needs be fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was the leader of them that apprehended Jesus: . . .

Acts 5:1-11 But a certain man named Ananias, with Saphira his wife, sold a piece of land, . . .

Acts 8:18 And when Simon saw that, by the imposition of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, . . .

2 Timothy 4:10 Crescens into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia.

2 Peter 2:20,21 For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former. . . .

Context
A Charge to Timothy
23Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thy frequent infirmities. 24Some men's sins are manifest, going before to judgment: and some men they follow after. 25In like manner also good deeds are manifest: and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.…
Cross References
Romans 3:7
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

Revelation 14:13
And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours. For their works follow them.

1 Timothy 5:23
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