Colossians 3:24

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Colossians 3:24

Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

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Ye shall

Let no one lay down rules for you as he pleases, with regard to fasting and the cult of angels, presuming on his visions and inflated by his sensuous notions,

rejoice and exult in it, for your reward is rich in heaven; that is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

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.

No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

Then you will be blessed; for as they have no means of repaying you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

For he will render to everyone according to what he has done,

Now a worker has his wage counted to him as a due, not as a favour;

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

I get a reward if I do it of my own accord, whereas to do it otherwise is no more than for a steward to discharge his trust.

Be sure that everyone, slave or free, will be paid back by the Lord and Master for the good he has done.

He mediates a new covenant for this reason, that those who have been called may obtain the eternal inheritance they have been promised, now that a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions involved in the first covenant.

Now do not drop that confidence of yours; it carries with it a rich hope of reward.

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.

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If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall my servant be also: if anyone serves me, my Father will honour him.

PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God

he who serves Christ on these lines, is acceptable to God and esteemed by men.

But a slave who is called to be in the Lord is a freedman of the Lord. Just as a free man who is called is a slave of Christ

Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ,

Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted a faith of equal privilege with ours, by the equity of our God and saviour Jesus Christ:

Judas, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, to those who have been called, who are beloved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ: