Matthew 5:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

For great

Hebrews 11:6

For so

1 Thessalonians 2:15

General references

Matthew 21:35

Bible References

For great

Take care not to practise your charity before men in order to be noticed; otherwise you get no reward from your Father in heaven. No,

He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet, will receive a prophet's reward; he who receives a good man because he is good, will receive a good man's reward.

For the Son of man is coming in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward everyone for what he has done.

rejoice on that day and leap for joy! rich is your reward in heaven for their fathers did the very same to the prophets.

Still, though planter and waterer are on the same level, each will get his own wage for the special work that he has done.

remember, you will receive from the Lord the inheritance which is your due; serve Christ your Lord and Master,

and apart from faith it is impossible to satisfy him, for the man who draws near to God must believe that he exists and that he does reward those who seek him.

For so

When the fruit-season was near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers to collect his fruit;

So you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are sons of those who killed the prophets!

rejoice on that day and leap for joy! rich is your reward in heaven for their fathers did the very same to the prophets.

Woe to you! you build tombs for the prophets whom your own fathers killed:

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ear, you are always resisting the holy Spirit! As with your fathers, so with you!

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men

General references

but the vinedressers took his servants and flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third.