Thematic Bible: The rewards of the faithful for spiritual service


Thematic Bible




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.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn't worship the beast nor his image, and didn't receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.



"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.


and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.


There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.


A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.


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

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






He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.




Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."