Matthew 5:12

The Beatitudes

¹¹ Blessed are you when people taunt you, and persecute you, and say everything evil about you--untruly, and on my account. ¹²  Be glad and rejoice, because your reward in Heaven will be great; for so men persecuted the Prophets who lived before you. ¹³ It is you who are the Salt of the earth; but, if the salt should lose its strength, what will you use to restore its saltiness? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown away, and trampled underfoot.

Be Glad and Rejoice

Filled with Joy

Leap for Joy

Rejoice and Be Glad

Reward in Heaven

Luke 6:23

Then indeed you may be glad and dance for joy, for be sure that your reward in Heaven will be great; for that is what their ancestors did to the Prophets.

Acts 5:41

But the Apostles left the Council, rejoicing that they had been thought worthy to suffer disgrace for that Name;

1 Thessalonians 2:15

The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the Prophets, and persecuted us also. They do not try to please God, and they are enemies to all mankind,

1 Peter 4:13

No, the more you share the sufferings of the Christ, the more may you rejoice, that, when the time comes for the manifestation of his Glory, you may rejoice and exult.

Romans 5:3

And not only that, but let us also exult in our troubles;

Colossians 1:24

Now at last I can rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and in my own person I supplement the afflictions endured by the Christ, for the sake of his Body, the Church;

James 1:2

My Brothers, whatever may be the temptations that beset you from time to time, always regard them as a reason for rejoicing,

Matthew 6:1-2

Take care not to perform your religious duties in public in order to be seen by others; if you do, your Father who is in Heaven has no reward for you.

Matthew 6:4-5

So that your charity may be secret; and your Father, who sees what is in secret, will recompense you.

Matthew 6:16

And, when you fast, do not put on gloomy looks, as hypocrites do who disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. That, I tell you, is their reward!

Matthew 10:41-42

He who welcomes a Prophet, because he is a Prophet, shall receive a Prophet's reward; and he who welcomes a good man, because he is a good man, shall receive a good man's reward.

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of Man is to come in his Father's Glory, with his angels, and then he 'will give to every man what his actions deserve.'

Matthew 21:34-38

When the time for the vintage drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to receive his share of the produce.

Matthew 23:31-37

By doing this you are furnishing evidence against yourselves that you are true children of the men who murdered the Prophets.

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, and show them kindness, and lend to them, never despairing. Then your reward shall be great, and you shall be Sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the thankless and the bad.

Luke 11:47-51

Alas for you! You build the monuments of the Prophets whom your ancestors killed.

Luke 13:34

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! she who slays the Prophets and stones the messengers sent to her--Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children round me, as a hen takes her brood under her wings, and you would not come!

Acts 7:51-52

O! stubborn race, heathen in heart and ears, you are for ever resisting the Holy Spirit; your ancestors did it, and you are doing it still.

Acts 16:25

About midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and while the prisoners were listening to them,

1 Corinthians 3:8

In this the man who plants and the man who waters are one; yet each will receive his own reward in proportion to his own labor.

2 Corinthians 4:17

The light burden of our momentary trouble is preparing for us, in measure transcending thought, a weight of imperishable glory;

Philippians 2:17

And yet, even if, when your faith is offered as a sacrifice to God, my life-blood must be poured out in addition, still I shall rejoice and share the joy of you all;

Colossians 3:24

Since you know that it is from the Master that you will receive the inheritance which will be your recompense. You are serving Christ, the Master.

Hebrews 11:6

But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that God exists, and that he rewards those who seek for him.

Hebrews 11:26

For he counted 'the reproaches that are heaped upon the Christ' of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, looking forward, as he did, to the reward awaiting him.