After these events, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield; your reward will be very great.
Colossians 3:24 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Knowing [with all certainty] that it is from the Lord [and not from men] that you will receive the inheritance which is your [real] reward. [The One Whom] you are actually serving [is] the Lord Christ (the Messiah). American Standard Version (1901) knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance: ye serve the Lord Christ. Common English Bible You know that you will receive an inheritance as a reward. You serve the Lord Christ. Catholic Public Domain Version For you know that you will receive from the Lord the repayment of an inheritance. Serve Christ the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ. |
After these events, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield; your reward will be very great.
The wicked person earns an empty wage, but the one who sows righteousness, a true reward.
Anyone who welcomes a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. And anyone who welcomes a righteous person because he’s righteous will receive a righteous person’s reward.
Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
‘Whenever you fast, don’t be gloomy like the hypocrites. For they disfigure their faces so that their fasting is obvious to people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward.
‘Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward.
And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.’
But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High. For he is gracious to the ungrateful and evil.
If anyone serves me, he must follow me. Where I am, there my servant also will be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honour him.
‘And now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
Paul, a ser?vant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle , and set apart for the gospel of God #– #
Whoever serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and receives human approval.
For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread,
Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labour.
For he who is called by the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ’s slave.
For am I now trying to persuade people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing God’s will from your heart.
knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord.
Let no one condemn you by delighting in ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such a person is inflated by empty notions of his unspiritual mind.
Now without faith it is impossible to please God, since the one who draws near to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Therefore, he is the mediator of a new covenant, , so that those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.
Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ: To those who have received a faith equal to ours through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James: To those who are the called, loved , by God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.
May the Lord reward you for what you have done, and may you receive a full reward from the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.’