Numbers 24:11
Therefore now flee to your place! I had intended to honor you greatly, but behold, the Lord has held you back from honor.”
Numbers 22:17
For I will give you a very great honor and I will do whatever you tell me; so please come, curse these people [of Israel] for me.’”
Numbers 22:37
Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not urgently send word to you to call you? Why did you not come to me [immediately]? Am I really unable to honor (pay) you?”
Matthew 19:28-30
Jesus said to them,
Acts 8:20
But Peter said to him, “May your money be destroyed along with you, because you thought you could buy the [free] gift of God with money!
Philippians 3:8
But more than that, I count everything as loss compared to the priceless privilege and supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord [and of growing more deeply and thoroughly acquainted with Him—a joy unequaled]. For His sake I have lost everything, and I consider it all garbage, so that I may gain Christ,
Hebrews 11:24-26
By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,
1 Peter 5:2-3
shepherd and guide and protect the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God; and not [motivated] for shameful gain, but with wholehearted enthusiasm;
2 John 1:8
Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have accomplished together, but that you may receive a full and perfect reward [when He grants rewards to faithful believers].