Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 4:5

5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come , who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts k, and then shall every man have praise of God .

Seeing that the judgment of secret things belongs to God, judge nothing before the time, which God hath set to judge all things. The works of the flesh are manifest, and men may judge of them; but for secret things, of which it is impossible, that those who do not know the hearts of men, should make up a judgment, do not judge of them before the time.

If men cloak the hidden things of darkness with the cover of hypocrisie and fair pretences, they will at that day be most certainly uncovered, and the secret thoughts, counsels, and imaginations of mens hearts shall in that day be made manifest.

And then those that have done well, every of them shall have praise of God; as on the contrary, (which is understood, though not here expressed) those that are hypocrites, and whose hearts have been full of evil thoughts and counsels, shall by God be put to shame, and exposed to contempt.

When God will certainly come to judge all men

Marginal references: Matt. 7.1. Rom. 2.11, 16. Rev. 20.12.; Rom. 2.29.