The Lord repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”
How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings,
Let me dwell in your tent forever! Let me take refuge under the shelter of your wings! Selah
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.
He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safe? So may the Lord reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day!—and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus.
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.”
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.
Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.”
Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,
He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
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