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
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Bible References
For great
Matthew 6:1
"But beware of doing your good actions in the sight of men, in order to attract their gaze; if you do, there is no reward for you with your Father who is in Heaven.
Matthew 10:41
Every one who receives a prophet, because he is a prophet, will receive a prophet's reward, and every one who receives a righteous man, because he is a righteous man, will receive a righteous man's reward.
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man is soon to come in the glory of the Father with His angels, and then will He requite every man according to his actions.
Luke 6:23
"Be glad at such a time, and dance for joy; for your reward is great in Heaven; for that is just the way their forefathers behaved to the Prophets!
1 Corinthians 3:8
Now in aim and purpose the planter and the waterer are one; and yet each will receive his own special reward, answering to his own special work.
Colossians 3:24
For you know that it is from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. Christ is the Master whose bondservants you are.
Hebrews 11:6
But where there is no faith it is impossible truly to please Him; for the man who draws near to God must believe that there is a God and that He proves Himself a rewarder of those who earnestly try to find Him.
For so
Matthew 21:34
When vintage-time approached, he sent his servants to the vine-dressers to receive his share of the grapes;
Matthew 23:31
"So that you bear witness against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the Prophets.
Luke 6:23
"Be glad at such a time, and dance for joy; for your reward is great in Heaven; for that is just the way their forefathers behaved to the Prophets!
Luke 11:47
Alas for you! for you repair the tombs of the Prophets, whom your forefathers killed.
Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou who murderest the Prophets and stonest those who have been sent to thee, how often have I desired to gather thy children just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not come!
Acts 7:51
"O stiff-necked men, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you also are continually at strife with the Holy Spirit--just as your forefathers were.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
Those Jewish persecutors killed both the Lord Jesus and the Prophets, and drove us out of their midst. They are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind;
General references
Matthew 21:35
but the vine-dressers seized the servants, and one they cruelly beat, one they killed, one they pelted with stones.