And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
Colossians 3:23-24
life | receiving | work
Who “will pay back to everyone according to their works.”
Romans 2:6
righteousness
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:58
obedience | encouragement | work
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
Galatians 6:9
righteousness | patience | harvest
His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
Matthew 25:21
reliability | blessing | serving
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.
Bind them around your neck.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
So you will find favor,
and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 3:3-4
love | heart | valuable
A man’s gift makes room for him,
and brings him before great men.
Proverbs 18:16
giving
Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.
James 1:12
temptation | life
But as it is written,
“Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear,
which didn’t enter into the heart of man,
these God has prepared for those who love him.”
1 Corinthians 2:9
love
The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh
is wealth, honor, and life.
Proverbs 22:4
humility | awe
Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 6:2
humility | giving
You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
Deuteronomy 5:33
obedience | following
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:14
Jesus | calling
Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.
Luke 6:38
giving | receiving | generosity
Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Matthew 7:7
seeking | receiving | promises
If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
Luke 6:33
righteousness
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
Hebrews 11:6
faith | joy | seeking
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 4:29
God | soul
But many will be last who are first, and first who are last.
Matthew 19:30
Wicked people earn deceitful wages,
but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
Proverbs 11:18
sin | righteousness
Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.
Revelation 22:12
second coming | end times | Jesus
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Matthew 6:6
Father | prayer
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
1 Peter 5:6
humility
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
James 4:10
God | humility
Seek good, and not evil,
that you may live;
and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you,
as you say.
Amos 5:14
holiness | seeking
The heart is deceitful above all things
and it is exceedingly corrupt.
Who can know it?
“I, Yahweh, search the mind.
I try the heart,
even to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his doings.”
Jeremiah 17:9-10
life | heart
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23
sin | eternal life | judgment
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
John 15:7
Jesus | Word of God
Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
2 John 1:8
self-control | work
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.
2 Corinthians 4:17
eternal life | suffering | encouragement
Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians 9:25
self-control | eternal life
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10
obedience | relationships
As sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 6:10
sadness | joy | money
I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
Revelation 3:11
second coming | patience
Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 1:10-11
calling | obedience | kingdom
The hands of the diligent ones shall rule,
but laziness ends in slave labor.
Proverbs 12:24
work | slavery
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
2 Timothy 4:7-8
faith | righteousness | judgment
He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Revelation 3:21
overcoming | heaven | Jesus
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:5
Jesus | dependence | fruitfulness
Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh,
the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
Psalm 33:12
God | blessing
Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 6:16
fasting | humility
By which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
2 Peter 1:4
desires | world | promises
By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
Hebrews 11:11
trust | faith | fruitfulness
But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does, so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Matthew 6:3-4
giving | Father
Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness,
for you reward every man according to his work.
Psalm 62:12
love
But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 6:17-18
fasting | Father
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt, then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
Jeremiah 7:5-7
conversion | widows | orphans
“They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.”
Malachi 3:17
serving | salvation | end times