Matthew 10:41

Welcoming a prophet or righteous person because of who they are brings a share in their reward. God honors those who support His servants.

Cross-references · 24

• 3 Jn 1:5–8Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• 2 Kgs 4:8–10One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
• 2 Kgs 4:16–17He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”
• Luke 14:13–14But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
• 2 Jn 1:8Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
• 1 Kgs 18:3–4Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;
• 2 Kgs 4:32–37When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and lying on his bed.
• Gen 20:7Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”
• Matt 25:34–40Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
• Rom 16:1–4I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,
• 2 Th 1:6–7Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
• 1 Cor 9:17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
• Matt 16:27For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
• Matt 6:6But 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.
• Matt 6:18so 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.
• 2 Tim 1:16–18May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
• 1 Kgs 17:9–15“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”
• Rom 16:23Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.
• Acts 16:15When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us.
• Matt 6:1“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
• Matt 6:4so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
• 1 Kgs 17:20–24He cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”
• Isa 3:10Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

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