Matthew 5:12

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Luke 6:23

Be glad in that day and rejoice; for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For according to these things did their fathers to the prophets.

James 1:2

My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations;

Colossians 3:24

Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.

1 Peter 4:13

But if you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice that when his glory shall be revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.

Colossians 1:24

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:

Romans 5:3

And not only so; but we glory also in tribulations, knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

Ruth 2:12

The Lord render unto thee for thy work: and mayest thou receive a full reward of the Lord the God of Israel, to whom thou art come, and under whose wings thou art fled.

Psalm 58:11

my God, his mercy shall prevent me.

Isaiah 3:10

Say to the just man that it is well: for he shall eat the fruit of his doings.

Proverbs 11:18

The wicked maketh an unsteady work: but to him that soweth justice, there is a faithful reward.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels: and then will he render to every man according to his works.

Hebrews 11:6

But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God, must believe that he is, and is a rewarder to them that seek him.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;

Philippians 2:17

Yea, and if I be made a victim upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and congratulate with you all.

1 Kings 18:13

Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water?

2 Corinthians 4:17

For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation, worketh for us above measure exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.

Acts 5:41

And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus.

Matthew 6:16

And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

1 Corinthians 3:8

Now he that planteth, and he that watereth, are one. And every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.

Luke 6:35

But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the unthankful, and to the evil.

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.

Nehemiah 9:26

But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs. And they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee. And they were guilty of great blasphemies.

Acts 16:25

And at midnight, Paul and Silas praying, praised God. And they that were in prison, heard them.

Luke 13:34

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain have I struck your children: they have not received correction. Your sword hath devoured your prophets: your generation is like a ravaging lion.

2 Chronicles 16:10

And Asa was angry with the seer, and commanded him to be put in prison: for he was greatly enraged because of this thing. And he put to death many of the people at that time.

1 Kings 18:4

For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water.

Jeremiah 26:8

And when Jeremias had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying: Let him be put to death.

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: There is one man left, by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micheas the son of Jemla; but I hate him, for he doth not prophesy good to me, but evil. And Josaphat said: Speak not so, O king.

1 Kings 21:20

And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy enemy? He said: I have found thee, because thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the Lord.

Hebrews 11:26

Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasure of the Egyptians. For he looked unto the reward.

2 Kings 1:9

And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that were under him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a hill said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou come down.

1 Kings 19:2

And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to-morrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them.

Jeremiah 37:14

Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremias, and they beat him and cast him into the prison that was in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for he was chief over the prison.

Philippians 1:29

For unto you it is given for Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him.

Hebrews 10:34

For you both had compassion on them that were in bands, and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.

Hebrews 11:33

Who by faith conquered kingdoms, wrought justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

James 5:10

Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.