Matthew 5:12 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹² 0 For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Be glad and supremely joyful, for your reward in heaven is great (strong and intense), for in this same way people persecuted the prophets who were before you. [II Chron. 36:16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.

Common English Bible

¹² Be full of joy and be glad, because you have a great reward in heaven. In the same way, people harassed the prophets who came before you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² be glad and exult, for your reward in heaven is plentiful. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

Matthew 5:12 Cross References

Genesis 15:1

Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.

1 Kings 18:13

8 And he said: I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house, who have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and have followed Baalim.

1 Kings 18:4

And he said: What have I sinned, that thou wouldst deliver me thy servant into the hand of Achab, that he should kill me?

1 Kings 19:2

And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said to him: Arise, eat: for thou hast yet a great way to go.

1 Kings 21:20

5 Now there was not such another as Achab, who was sold to do evil in the sight of the Lord: for his wife Jezabel set him on,

1 Kings 22:8

3 And the messenger, that went to call Micheas, spoke to him, saying: Behold the words of the prophets with one month declare good things to the king: let thy word therefore be like to theirs, and speak that which is good.

2 Kings 1:9

4 Behold fire came down from heaven, and consumed the two first captains of fifty men, and the fifties that were with them: but now I beseech thee to spare my life.

2 Chronicles 16:10

And Josaphat his son reigned in his stead, and grew strong against Israel.

2 Chronicles 36:16

1 That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.

Nehemiah 9:26

1 Yet in thy very many mercies thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them: because thou art a merciful and gracious God.

Psalm 19:11

May he give thee according to thy own heart; and confirm all thy counsels.

Psalm 58:11

Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us ?

Proverbs 11:18

5 The soul which blesseth, shall be made fat: and he that inebriateth, shall be inebriated also himself.

Isaiah 3:10

8 In that day the Lord will take away the ornaments of shoes, end little moons,

Jeremiah 2:30

It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee.

Jeremiah 26:8

6 Then the princes, and all the people said to the priests, and to the prophets: There is no judgement of death for this man: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 37:14

Now Saphatias the son of Mathan, and Gedelias the son of Phassur, and Juchal the son of Selemias, and Phassur the son of Melchias heard the words that Jeremias spoke to all the people, saying:

Matthew 16:27

And Jesus came and touched them: and said to them, Arise, and fear not.

Matthew 6:16

4 No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Luke 13:34

And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:

Luke 6:23

1 And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them in like manner.

Luke 6:35

3 For there is no good tree that bringeth forth evil fruit; nor an evil tree that bringeth forth good fruit.

Acts 16:25

3 And he, taking them the same hour of the night, washed their stripes, and himself was baptized, and all his house immediately.

Acts 5:41

And the word of the Lord increased; and the number of the disciples was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly: a great multitude also of the priests obeyed the faith.

Romans 5:3

1 And not only so; but also we glory in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.

1 Corinthians 3:8

7 But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

2 Corinthians 4:17

But we are confident, and have a good will to be absent rather from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Philippians 1:29

He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.

Philippians 2:17

6 For indeed he longed after you all: and was sad, for that you had heard that he was sick.

Colossians 1:24

Now this I say, that no man may deceive you by loftiness of words.

Colossians 3:24

Whom I have sent to you for this same purpose, that he may know the things that concern you, and comfort your hearts,

1 Thessalonians 2:15

For even when we were with you, we foretold you that we should suffer tribulations, as also it is come to pass, and you know.

Hebrews 10:34

By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony to his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

Hebrews 11:26

5 Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better resurrection.

Hebrews 11:33

Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 11:6

5 And truly if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they had doubtless time to return.

James 1:2

1 For the sun rose with a burning heat, and parched the grass, and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

James 5:10

9 My brethren, if any of you err from the truth, and one convert him:

1 Peter 4:13

Neither as lording it over the clergy, but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.

Ruth 2:12

7 She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels: