He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.
He will render to each one according to his works:
Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.
Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.
“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.
and that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For you will render to a man according to his work.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward. And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.
For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship. What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God. I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
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