nd thought are, or such as his love
and faith are, and from these all his outward acts derive their life;
since acting is willing, and speaking is thinking, acting being from
the will, and speaking from the thought. So where it is said in the
Word that man will be judged according to his deeds, and will be
rewarded according to his works, it is meant that he will be judged
and rewarded in accordance with his thought and affection, which are
the source of his deeds, or which are in his deeds; for deeds are
nothing apart from these, and are precisely such as these are.{1} All
this shows that the man's external accomplishes nothing, but only his
internal, which is the source of the external. For example: if a man
acts honestly and refrains from fraud solely because he fears the
laws and the loss of reputation and thereby of honor or gain, and if
that fear did not restrain him would defraud others whenever he
could; although such a man's deeds outwardly appear honest, his
thought and will are fraud; and because he is inwardly dishonest and
fraudulent he has hell in himself. But he who acts honestly and
refrains from fraud because it is against God and against the
neighbor would have no wish to defraud another if he could; his
thought and will are conscience, and he has heaven in himself. The
deeds of these two appear alike in outward form, but inwardly they
are wholly unlike.

{Footnote 1} It is frequently said in the Word that man will be
judged and will be rewarded according to his deeds and works
(n. 3934). By "deeds and works" deeds and works in their
internal form are meant, not in their external form, since good
works in external form are likewise done by the wicked, but in
internal and external form together only by the good (n. 3934,
6073). Works, like all activities, have their being and outgo
[esse et existere] and their quality from the interiors of man,
which pertain to his thought and will, since they proceed from
these; therefore such as the interiors are such are the works
(n. 3934, 8911, 10331). That is, such as the interiors are in
regard to love and faith (n. 3934, 6073, 10331, 10332). Thus
works contain love and faith, and are love and faith in effect
(n. 10331). Therefore to be judged and rewarded in accordance
with deeds and works, means in accordance with love and faith
(n. 3147, 3934, 6073, 8911, 10331, 10332). So far as works look
to self and the world they are not