And David took Saul's sword and put the band round him over the metal coat, and was unable to go forward; for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, It is not possible for me to go out with these, for I am not used to them. So David took them off.
If a man comes across his hater, will he let him get away safe? so may you be rewarded by the Lord for what you have done for me today.
And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.
And the Lord will give to every man the reward of his righteousness and his faith: because the Lord gave you into my hands today, and I would not put out my hand against the man who has been marked with the holy oil.
May the Lord be good and true to you: and I myself will see that your kind act is rewarded, because you have done this thing.
While I, though I am crowned king, have little strength, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are out of my control: may the Lord give to the evil-doer the reward of his evil-doing!
When one came to me with the news of Saul's death, in the belief that it would be good news, I took him and put him to death in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news:
Then at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go forward quickly, for the Lord has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines.
Then Joab and the people with him went forward to the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.
And David said to Ittai, Go forward, then. And Ittai the Gittite went on, with all his men and all the little ones he had with him.
Then Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok, said to Joab again, Whatever may come of it, let me go after the Cushite. And Joab said, Why have you a desire to go, my son, seeing that you will get no reward for your news?
Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward?
The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.
Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.
And to Abiathar the priest the king said, Go to Anathoth, to your fields; for death would be your right reward; but I will not put you to death now, because you took up the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and you were with him in all his troubles.
Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.
Give ear in heaven your living-place, acting in mercy; and give to every man whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of all the children of men:
But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
And the king said to the man of God, Come with me to my house for food and rest, and I will give you a reward.
And the servants of the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land went forward first; and when Ben-hadad sent out, they gave him the news, saying, Men have come out from Samaria.
Then a spirit came forward and took his place before the Lord and said, I will get him to do it by a trick.
Now all Moab, hearing that the kings had come to make war against them, got together all who were able to take up arms and went forward to the edge of the country.
But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them;
And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said; will the shade go forward ten degrees or back?
And Hezekiah said in answer, It is a simple thing for the shade to go forward; but let it go back ten degrees.
So Joab and the people who were with him went forward into the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.
Gold for the gold things, and silver for the silver things, and for every sort of work to be done by the expert workmen. Who then will come forward, offering himself this day for the Lord's work?
Then give ear from heaven your living-place, answering with forgiveness, and give to every man, whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; (for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of the children of men;)
But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.
But be you strong and let not your hands be feeble, for your work will be rewarded.
Then a spirit came forward and took his place before the Lord and said, I will get him to do it by a trick. And the Lord said to him, How?
See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.
But he sent representatives to him, saying, What have I to do with you, O king of Judah? I have not come against you this day, but against those with whom I am at war; and God has given me orders to go forward quickly: keep out of God's way, for he is with me, or he will send destruction on you.
However, Josiah would not go back; but keeping to his purpose of fighting against him, and giving no attention to the words of Neco, which came from God, he went forward to the fight in the valley of Megiddo.
But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;
And the king said, What honour and reward have been given to Mordecai for this? Then the servants who were waiting on the king said, nothing has been done for him.
Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
Will you have respect for God's person in this cause, and put yourselves forward as his supporters?
Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.
Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.
For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.
As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.
This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.
See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;
For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?
That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.
So I say, Give ear to me, and I will put forward my knowledge.
I will not put forward words like these, or make use of your sayings in answer to him.
I will give my answer; I will put forward my knowledge:
If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.
Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?
He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.
For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.
Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.
The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.
I will make a song to the Lord, because he has given me my reward.
The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.
Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.
By them is your servant made conscious of danger, and in keeping them there is great reward.
Give them the right reward of their acts, and of their evil doings: give them punishment for the works of their hands, let them have their full reward.
O have love for the Lord, all you his saints; for the Lord keeps safe from danger all those who are true to him, and gives the workers of pride their right reward.
So that men will say, Truly there is a reward for righteousness; truly there is a God who is judge on the earth.
Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
And mercy, O Lord, is yours, for you give to every man the reward of his work.
Let those who say Aha, aha! be turned back as a reward of their shame.
Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.
Make us glad in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil.
Only with your eyes will you see the reward of the evil-doers.
With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.
Be lifted up, O judge of the earth; let their reward come to the men of pride.
He who is the judge of the nations, will he not give men the reward of their acts, even he who gives knowledge to man?
He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.
Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.
Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.
<GIMEL> Give me, your servant, the reward of life, so that I may keep your word;
The sinners have been waiting for me to give me up to destruction; but I will give all my mind to your unchanging ward.
See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.
Take my soul out of prison, so that I may give praise to your name: the upright will give praise because of me; for you have given me a full reward.
To give the nations the reward of their sins, and the peoples their punishment;
The wise will have glory for their heritage, but shame will be the reward of the foolish.
They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.
The man who has mercy will be rewarded, but the cruel man is the cause of trouble to himself.
The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.
If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!
From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.
He who makes sport of the word will come to destruction, but the respecter of the law will be rewarded.
Evil will overtake sinners, but the upright will be rewarded with good.
He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.
Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.
He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.
The reward of a gentle spirit and the fear of the Lord is wealth and honour and life.
If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?
Say not, I will do to him as he has done to me; I will give the man the reward of his work.
For so you will put coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will give you your reward.
And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.
And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.
So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.
As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.
There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.
The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.
And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.
The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.
Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.
Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.
He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.
Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.
Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?
Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.
Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.
Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.
Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.
If there is one like me, let him come forward and say it, let him make it clear and put it in order before me: who has made clear in the past the things to come? let him make clear the future to me.
Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be put to shame.
I have sent him out to overcome the nations, and I will make all his ways straight: I will give him the work of building my town, and he will let my prisoners go free, without price or reward, says the Lord of armies.
Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.
But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.
And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
He will give them the right reward of their doings, wrath to his attackers, punishment to his haters, and even on the sea-lands he will send punishment.
As they had twice as much grief, and marks of shame were their heritage, so in their land they will be rewarded twice over, and will have eternal joy.
For I, the Lord, take pleasure in upright judging; I will not put up with the violent taking away of right; and I will certainly give them their reward, and I will make an eternal agreement with them.
For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.
Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.
But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.
O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;
And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.
I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.
Give thought to me, O Lord, and give ear to the voice of those who put forward a cause against me.
Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.
For a number of nations and great kings will make servants of them, even of them: and I will give them the reward of their acts, even the reward of the work of their hands.
The Lord has said this: Keep your voice from sorrow and your eyes from weeping: for your work will be rewarded, says the Lord; and they will come back from the land of their hater.
Great in wisdom and strong in act: whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone the reward of his ways and the fruit of his doings:
See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?
Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
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In Mark 12:30 Jesus said;
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
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The First Book of Adam and Eve. Books 1 begins immediately after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. We learn about the fall but also of the promise to save Adam and his decendents. The story depicts mans struggle against evil, the devil and sin.
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