If any man's work that he built on will remain, he will receive benefit.
Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each man will receive his own payment according to his own labor.
Therefore do not judge anything before time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.
And when the chief Shepherd is made known, ye will receive the unfading crown of glory.
I, a fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a partaker of the glory going be revealed, exhort the elders among you:
For what is our hope or joy or crown of boast? Or is it not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
And those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a commission.
But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have the boast in himself alone and not in the other man.