“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.
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, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, “Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.”
Behold, the Lord God comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.
“And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.
So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
The great day of the Lord is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter; the mighty man cries aloud there.
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.
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