Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
Parallel translations
- WEB But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”
- BSB But as for you, be strong; do not be discouraged, for your work will be rewarded.”
- NKJV But you, be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded!”
- NASB But you, be strong and do not lose courage, for there is a reward for your work.”
- NLT But as for you, be strong and courageous, for your work will be rewarded.”
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Quick answer
Azariah exhorts Asa to be strong and not slack, for his work will be rewarded. Faithful effort for God is never in vain.
Overview
The prophet turns from history to encouragement, urging perseverance in reform. The promise that 'your work will be rewarded' motivates continued obedience grounded in God's faithfulness. This call to steadfast labor echoes throughout Scripture and finds its New Testament parallel in the assurance that labor in the Lord is not in vain.
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Cross-references · 29
- 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
- Josh 1:7Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
- Josh 1:9Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
- Heb 10:35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
- 1 Chr 28:20And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
- Gen 15:1After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
- Ps 58:11So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
- 2 Jn 1:8Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
- Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
- Col 3:24Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
- Eph 6:10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
- 1 Cor 3:8Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
- Ruth 2:12The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
- 1 Cor 3:14If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
- Matt 6:6But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
- Rom 4:4–5Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
- Matt 6:4That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
- Matt 10:41–42He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.
- Ps 27:14Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
- 1 Cor 16:13Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
- Dan 10:19And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.
- Matt 6:18That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
- Matt 5:46For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
- Luke 6:35But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
- 1 Cor 9:17–18For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
- Ps 19:11Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
- Matt 5:12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
- Matt 6:1Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
- Isa 35:3–4Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
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