Matthew 5:12

The Beatitudes

¹¹ "Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and keep on falsely telling all sorts of evil against you for my sake. ¹²  Keep on rejoicing and leaping for ecstasy, for your reward will be rich in heaven; for this is the way they persecuted the prophets who lived before you. ¹³ "You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its strength, what can make it salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden under foot.

Be Glad and Rejoice

Filled with Joy

Leap for Joy

Rejoice and Be Glad

Reward in Heaven

Luke 6:23

Burst into joy on that day and leap for ecstasy, for your reward will be rich in heaven; for this is the way your forefathers used to treat the prophets.

Acts 5:41

So they went out from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer disgrace for Jesus' name;

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; and who continue to displease God and show themselves in opposition to all mankind,

1 Peter 4:13

but so far as you are sharing Christ's sufferings, keep on rejoicing, so that at the uncovering of His glory you may rejoice triumphantly.

Romans 5:3

And not only that, but this too: let us continue exulting in our sufferings, for we know that suffering produces endurance,

Colossians 1:24

I am now glad to be suffering for you, and in my own person I am filling in what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for His body, that is, the church.

James 1:2

You must consider it the purest joy, my brothers, when you are involved in various trials,

Matthew 6:1-2

"Take care not to do your good deeds in public, to attract the attention of people; if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

Matthew 6:4-5

so that your deed of charity may be secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

Matthew 6:16

"Also whenever you fast, you must not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they put on a gloomy countenance, to let people see them fasting. I solemnly say to you, they already have their reward.

Matthew 10:41-42

Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will receive the same reward as a prophet, and whoever welcomes an upright man as such will receive the same reward as the upright man.

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of Man is going to come in His Father's splendor, with His angels, and then He will pay back to everyone in accordance with what he has done.

Matthew 21:34-38

But when the time for gathering grapes was near, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his rent.

Matthew 23:31-37

So you are witnessing against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Luke 6:35

But you must practice loving your enemies, doing good to them, and lending to them, despairing of nothing; so that your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

Luke 11:47-51

A curse on you, because you build monuments for the prophets, whom your forefathers killed!

Luke 13:34

"O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! The city that continues to murder the prophets, and to stone those who are sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings. But you refused!

Acts 7:51-52

"You people, stubborn in will, heathenish in hearts and ears, you are always resisting the Holy Spirit, as your forefathers did, too.

Acts 16:25

But about midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

1 Corinthians 3:8

The planter and the waterer are one in aim, and yet each of us will get his own pay in accordance with his own work,

2 Corinthians 4:17

For this slight and momentary sorrow continues to accumulate for me a solid and eternal glory far beyond any comparison,

Philippians 2:17

Yes, even if I am pouring out my life as a libation on the sacrifice and service your faith is rendering, I am glad to do so and congratulate you upon it;

Colossians 3:24

for you know that it is from the Lord that you are going to get your pay in the form of an inheritance; so keep on serving Christ the Lord.

Hebrews 11:6

but without faith it is impossible to please Him, for anyone who approaches God must believe that there is a God and that He gives rewards to all who earnestly try to find Him.

Hebrews 11:26

and thought the reproach endured for the Christ was greater wealth than all the treasures in Egypt, for he kept his eye upon the reward.