Matthew 5:12

A Conservative Version

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for so they persecuted the prophets before you.

Cross References

Luke 6:23

Rejoice ye in that day, and leap, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did in the same way to the prophets.

James 1:2

Consider it all joy, my brothers, when ye encounter various trials,

Colossians 3:24

knowing that from Lord ye will receive the reward of the inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ.

1 Peter 4:13

But rejoice in so far as ye are partakers in the sufferings of the Christ, so that also at the revealing of his glory ye may rejoice, having exceeding joy.

Colossians 1:24

I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and make complete in my flesh things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ for his body, which is the church.

Romans 5:3

And not only so, but we also take pride in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance,

Ruth 2:12

LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings thou have come to take refuge.

Psalm 58:11

so that men shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous man. Truly there is a God who judges in the earth.

Isaiah 3:10

Say ye of the righteous, that [it is] well, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Proverbs 11:18

A wicked man earns deceitful wages, but he who sows righteousness [has] a sure reward.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his heavenly agents, and then he will reward each man according to his actions.

Hebrews 11:6

And apart from faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and becomes a rewarder of those who search for him.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

The men who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and who persecuted us, and are not pleasing to God, and are contrary to all men.

Philippians 2:17

Yet even if I am poured out a libation upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

1 Kings 18:13

Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of LORD, how I hid a hundred men of LORD's prophets by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

2 Corinthians 4:17

For our slight momentary affliction works for us an eternal weight of glory from extraordinariness to extraordinariness,

Acts 5:41

Indeed therefore they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were considered worthy to be treated shamefully for the name of Jesus.

Matthew 6:16

And when ye fast, become not like the gloomy looking hypocrites, for they make their faces unsightly, so that they may appear fasting to men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

1 Corinthians 3:8

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each man will receive his own payment according to his own labor.

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, despairing nothing, and your reward will be great. And ye will be sons of the Most High, because he is good toward the ungrateful and bad.

Genesis 15:1

After these things the word of LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram. I am thy shield, thy exceedingly great reward.

Nehemiah 9:26

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them again to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

Acts 16:25

Now toward midnight Paul and Silas, while praying, were singing praises to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Luke 13:34

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather thy children together as a hen does her brood under her wings, and ye would not.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I have smitten your sons. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.

Psalm 19:11

Moreover by them thy servant is warned. In keeping them there is great reward.

2 Chronicles 16:10

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison-house. For he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

1 Kings 18:4

for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

Jeremiah 26:8

And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, Thou shall surely die.

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the kin

1 Kings 21:20

And Ahab said to Elijah, Have thou found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found thee because thou have sold thyself to do that which is evil in the sight of LORD.

Hebrews 11:26

Having esteemed the vilification of the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he focused toward the recompense of reward.

2 Kings 1:9

Then [the king] sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him, and, behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he spoke to him, O man of God, the king has said, Come down.

1 Kings 19:2

Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

Jeremiah 37:14

Then Jeremiah said, It is false. I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he did not hearken to him. So Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the rulers.

Philippians 1:29

Because to you it was granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him,

Hebrews 10:34

For ye were both compassionate about my bonds, and ye accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing yourselves to have a superior and an enduring existence in the heavens.

Hebrews 11:33

who, through faith, conquered kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, closed the mouths of lions,

James 5:10

Take an example, my brothers, of evil-suffering and longsuffering, the prophets who spoke in the name of Lord.