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REWARD

A MOTIVE TO FAITHFULNESS EXO 20:6,12; LEV 25:18,19; 26:3-45; DEU 4:40; 6:3,18; 11:13-16,18-21,26-29; 15:9-11; 22:7; 24:19; 25:15; 27:12-26; JOS 8:33; ISA 1:16-20; 3:10; 40:10,11; JER 17:24-26; 22:3,4;

Passages on this topic · 166

  • Exodus 20:6

    and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

  • Exodus 20:12

    “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • Leviticus 25:18

    “‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

  • Leviticus 25:19

    The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

  • Leviticus 26:3

    “‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

  • Leviticus 26:4

    then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

  • Leviticus 26:5

    Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

  • Leviticus 26:6

    “‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

  • Leviticus 26:7

    You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

  • Leviticus 26:8

    Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

  • Leviticus 26:9

    “‘I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

  • Leviticus 26:10

    You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.

  • Leviticus 26:11

    I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.

  • Leviticus 26:12

    I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

  • Leviticus 26:13

    I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.

  • Leviticus 26:14

    “‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

  • Leviticus 26:15

    and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

  • Leviticus 26:16

    I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

  • Leviticus 26:17

    I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

  • Leviticus 26:18

    “‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

  • Leviticus 26:19

    I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass.

  • Leviticus 26:20

    Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

  • Leviticus 26:21

    “‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

  • Leviticus 26:22

    I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

  • Leviticus 26:23

    “‘If by these things you won’t be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;

  • Leviticus 26:24

    then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

  • Leviticus 26:25

    I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

  • Leviticus 26:26

    When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

  • Leviticus 26:27

    “‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

  • Leviticus 26:28

    then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.

  • Leviticus 26:29

    You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

  • Leviticus 26:30

    I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

  • Leviticus 26:31

    I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

  • Leviticus 26:32

    I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

  • Leviticus 26:33

    I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

  • Leviticus 26:34

    Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

  • Leviticus 26:35

    As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths, when you lived on it.

  • Leviticus 26:36

    “‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

  • Leviticus 26:37

    They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.

  • Leviticus 26:38

    You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.

  • Leviticus 26:39

    Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

  • Leviticus 26:40

    “‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

  • Leviticus 26:41

    I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;

  • Leviticus 26:42

    then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.

  • Leviticus 26:43

    The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

  • Leviticus 26:44

    Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;

  • Leviticus 26:45

    but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’”

  • Deuteronomy 4:40

    You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.

  • Deuteronomy 6:3

    Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deuteronomy 6:18

    You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,

  • Deuteronomy 11:13

    It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

  • Deuteronomy 11:14

    that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

  • Deuteronomy 11:15

    I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

  • Deuteronomy 11:16

    Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

  • Deuteronomy 11:18

    Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

  • Deuteronomy 11:19

    You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

  • Deuteronomy 11:20

    You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates;

  • Deuteronomy 11:21

    that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

  • Deuteronomy 11:26

    Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:

  • Deuteronomy 11:27

    the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;

  • Deuteronomy 11:28

    and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

  • Deuteronomy 11:29

    It shall happen, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.

  • Deuteronomy 15:9

    Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

  • Deuteronomy 15:10

    You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

  • Deuteronomy 15:11

    For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

  • Deuteronomy 22:7

    You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

  • Deuteronomy 24:19

    When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

  • Deuteronomy 25:15

    You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • Deuteronomy 27:12

    “These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

  • Deuteronomy 27:13

    These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

  • Deuteronomy 27:14

    With a loud voice, the Levites shall say to all the men of Israel,

  • Deuteronomy 27:15

    ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

  • Deuteronomy 27:16

    ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

  • Deuteronomy 27:17

    ‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

  • Deuteronomy 27:18

    ‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

  • Deuteronomy 27:19

    ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

  • Deuteronomy 27:20

    ‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

  • Deuteronomy 27:21

    ‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

  • Deuteronomy 27:22

    ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

  • Deuteronomy 27:23

    ‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

  • Deuteronomy 27:24

    ‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbor.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

  • Deuteronomy 27:25

    ‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

  • Deuteronomy 27:26

    ‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”

  • Joshua 8:33

    All Israel, their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

  • Isaiah 1:16

    Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

  • Isaiah 1:17

    Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

  • Isaiah 1:18

    “Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

  • Isaiah 1:19

    If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

  • Isaiah 1:20

    but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

  • Isaiah 3:10

    Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

  • Isaiah 40:10

    Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

  • Isaiah 40:11

    He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

  • Jeremiah 17:24

    It shall happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says Yahweh, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;

  • Jeremiah 17:25

    then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain forever.

  • Jeremiah 17:26

    They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to Yahweh’s house.

  • Jeremiah 22:3

    Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Jeremiah 22:4

    For if you do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.

  • Matthew 10:32

    Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.

  • Matthew 16:24

    Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

  • Matthew 16:25

    For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

  • Matthew 16:26

    For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

  • Matthew 16:27

    For 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.

  • Matthew 20:1

    “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

  • Matthew 20:2

    When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

  • Matthew 20:3

    He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

  • Matthew 20:4

    He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.

  • Matthew 20:5

    Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.

  • Matthew 20:6

    About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

  • Matthew 20:7

    “They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’

  • Matthew 20:8

    When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’

  • Matthew 20:9

    “When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

  • Matthew 20:10

    When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

  • Matthew 20:11

    When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

  • Matthew 20:12

    saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’

  • Matthew 20:13

    “But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?

  • Matthew 20:14

    Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

  • Matthew 20:15

    Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

  • Matthew 20:16

    So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

  • Matthew 25:34

    Then 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;

  • Matthew 25:35

    for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

  • Matthew 25:36

    I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

  • Matthew 25:37

    “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?

  • Matthew 25:38

    When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?

  • Matthew 25:39

    When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’

  • Matthew 25:40

    “The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

  • Matthew 25:41

    Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

  • Matthew 25:42

    for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

  • Matthew 25:43

    I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

  • Matthew 25:44

    “Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’

  • Matthew 25:45

    “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

  • Matthew 25:46

    These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

  • Mark 10:21

    Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

  • Mark 13:13

    You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

  • Luke 6:22

    Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

  • Luke 6:23

    Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

  • Luke 6:35

    But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

  • Luke 12:8

    “I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;

  • Acts 26:18

    to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

  • Romans 2:10

    But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

  • 1 Corinthians 3:8

    Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

  • Ephesians 6:1

    Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

  • Ephesians 6:2

    “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

  • Ephesians 6:3

    “that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

  • Hebrews 10:34

    For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

  • Hebrews 10:36

    For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

  • Hebrews 11:26

    accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

  • Hebrews 12:1

    Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

  • Hebrews 12:2

    looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

  • Hebrews 12:28

    Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

  • 1 Peter 3:9

    not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

  • 1 Peter 3:10

    For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

  • 1 Peter 3:11

    Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.

  • 1 Peter 3:12

    For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

  • 2 Peter 1:10

    Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

  • 2 Peter 1:11

    For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

  • Revelation 2:10

    Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

  • Revelation 2:17

    He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

  • Revelation 2:25

    Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.

  • Revelation 2:26

    He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

  • Revelation 2:27

    He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:

  • Revelation 2:28

    and I will give him the morning star.

  • Revelation 7:14

    I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

  • Revelation 7:15

    Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.

  • Revelation 7:16

    They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat;

  • Revelation 7:17

    for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

  • Revelation 22:12

    “Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).