As the ark of the Lord was entering the city of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
Luke 6:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Rejoice in that day and leap for joy. Take note #– #your reward is great in heaven, for this is the way their ancestors used to treat the prophets. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Rejoice and be glad at such a time and exult and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is rich and great and strong and intense and abundant in heaven; for even so their forefathers treated the prophets. American Standard Version (1901) Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy: for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for in the same manner did their fathers unto the prophets. Common English Bible Rejoice when that happens! Leap for joy because you have a great reward in heaven. Their ancestors did the same things to the prophets. Catholic Public Domain Version Be glad in that day and exult. For behold, your reward is great in heaven. For these same things their fathers did to the prophets. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
As the ark of the Lord was entering the city of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
and took a hundred prophets and hid them, fifty men to a cave, and provided them with food and water when Jezebel slaughtered the Lord’s prophets.
He replied, ‘I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Armies, but the Israelites have abandoned your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are looking for me to take my life.’
‘I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Armies,’ he replied, ‘but the Israelites have abandoned your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they’re looking for me to take my life.’
So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, ‘May the gods punish me and do so severely if I don’t make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow! ’
Ahab said to Elijah, ‘So, my enemy, you’ve found me, have you? ’ He replied, ‘I have found you because you devoted yourself to do what is evil in the Lord’s sight.
and say, “This is what the king says: Put this man in prison and feed him only a little bread and water until I come back safely.” ’
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, ‘There is still one man who can enquire of the Lord, but I hate him because he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.’ ‘The king shouldn’t say that! ’ Jehoshaphat replied.
He announced, ‘May God punish me and do so severely if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.’
But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.
But they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They flung your law behind their backs and killed your prophets who warned them in order to turn them back to you. They committed terrible blasphemies.
Then the lame will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy, for water will gush in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;
I have struck down your children in vain; they would not accept discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.
‘For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘not leaving them root or branches.
Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped inside her, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
For you see, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped for joy inside me.
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.
Paul said in a loud voice, ‘Stand up on your feet! ’ And he jumped up and began to walk around.
So he jumped up and started to walk, and he entered the temple with them #– #walking, leaping, and praising God.
Then they went out from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be treated shamefully on behalf of the Name. ,
And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,
So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and in difficulties, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for his body, that is, the church.
if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us;
For he considered reproach for the sake of Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since he was looking ahead to the reward.
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.
Consider it a great joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you experience various trials,
Instead, rejoice as you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may also rejoice with great joy when his glory is revealed.
‘Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give some of the hidden manna. , I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.
The one who conquers and who keeps my works to the end: I will give him authority over the nations –
‘Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be my son.
‘The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never go out again. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God #– #the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God #– #and my new name.
‘In the same way, the one who conquers will be dressed in white clothes, and I will never erase his name from the book of life but will acknowledge his name before my Father and before his angels.