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 them 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 keep his place before me?
Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord's punishment; he will give her her reward.
And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldaea, their reward for all the evil they have done in Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.
For the waster has come on her, even on Babylon, and her men of war are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord is a rewarding God, and he will certainly give payment.
You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.
You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.
The punishment of your evil-doing is complete, O daughter of Zion; never again will he take you away as a prisoner: he will give you the reward of your evil-doing, O daughter of Edom; he will let your sin be uncovered.
They went without turning, every one went straight forward.
Every one of them went straight forward; wherever the spirit was to go they went; they went on without turning.
The four of them went straight forward without turning to one side.
And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.
As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose form I saw by the river Chebar; when they went, every one of them went straight forward.
They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.
The reward of your evil designs and your disgusting ways has come on you, says the Lord.
In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
And I will send on you the punishment of your evil ways, and you will be rewarded for your sins with your images: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
I will take payment from Edom because of my people Israel; and I will take Edom in hand in my wrath and in my passion: and they will have experience of my reward, says the Lord.
I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his hard work, because they were working for me, says the Lord.
I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out.
And still you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, I will be your judge, giving to everyone the reward of his ways.
And I sent them in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries: I was their judge, rewarding them for their way and their acts.
But if you make clear the dream and the sense of it, you will have from me offerings and rewards and great honour: so make clear to me the dream and the sense of it.
Then Daniel made answer and said to the king, Keep your offerings for yourself, and give your rewards to another; but I, after reading the writing to the king, will give him the sense of it.
Then the chief rulers and the captains were looking for some cause for putting Daniel in the wrong in connection with the kingdom, but they were unable to put forward any wrongdoing or error against him; because he was true, and no error or wrong was to be seen in him.
And the priest will be like the people; I will give them punishment for their evil ways, and the reward of their acts.
Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.
The days of punishment, the days of reward are come; Israel will be put to shame; the prophet is foolish, the man who has the spirit is off his head, because of your great sin.
I will come and give them punishment; and the peoples will come together against them when I give them the reward of their two sins.
The Lord has a cause against Judah, and will give punishment to Jacob for his ways; he will give him the reward of his acts.
For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.
For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head.
Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.
Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
Horsemen driving forward, and the shining sword and the bright spear: and a great number of wounded, and masses of dead bodies; they are falling over the bodies of the dead:
They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.
But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.
Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.
Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward.
So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
He who gives honour to a prophet, in the name of a prophet, will be given a prophet's reward; and he who gives honour to an upright man, in the name of an upright man, will be given an upright man's reward.
And whoever gives to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he will not go without his reward.
For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he will give to every man the reward of his works.
And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.
And he went forward a little, and falling down on his face in prayer, he said, O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup go from me; but let not my pleasure, but yours be done.
And he said to the man, Get up and come forward.
Whoever gives you a cup of water, because you are Christ's, truly I say to you, he will in no way be without his reward.
And he went forward a little, and falling down on the earth, made request that, if possible, the hour might go from him.
And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were working with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from this time forward you will be a fisher of men.
But he had knowledge of their thoughts; and he said to the man whose hand was dead, Get up and come into the middle. And he got up and came forward.
Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.
But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.
And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.
And he said to the master of the house, When you give a feast, do not send for your friends and your brothers and your family or your neighbours who have wealth, for they may give a feast for you, and so you will get a reward.
And you will have a blessing, because they will not be able to give you any payment, and you will get your reward when the upright come back from the dead.
But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;
And with reason; for we have the right reward of our acts, but this man has done nothing wrong.
He said quite openly and straightforwardly, I am not the Christ.
He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.
I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.
And putting her forward, they said to him, Master, this woman has been taken in the very act of sinning against the married relation.
From this time forward, I give you knowledge of things before they come about, so that when they come about you may have belief that I am he.
Then Jesus, having knowledge of everything which was coming on him, went forward and said to them, Who are you looking for?
(Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.
Then they took Alexander out from among the people, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander, making a sign with his hand, was about to make a statement to the people in answer:
And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.
Who will give to every man his right reward:
Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;
Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt.
For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Do not give punishment for wrongs done to you, dear brothers, but give way to the wrath of God; for it is said in the holy Writings, Punishment is mine, I will give reward, says the Lord.
Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work.
If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.
But if I do it gladly, I have a reward; and if not, I am under orders to do it.
What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.
Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.
For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.
For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.
Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.
Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?
So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.
I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.
Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.
Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),
In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.
Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,
If in any way I may have the reward of life from the dead.
Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.
I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.
Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,
Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.
For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,
Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,
Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.
For the rest, my brothers, let there be prayer for us that the word of the Lord may go forward with increasing glory, even as it does with you;
It was my desire, when I went on into Macedonia, that you might make a stop at Ephesus, to give orders to certain men not to put forward a different teaching,
Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward.
For the Writings say, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. And, The worker has a right to his reward.
Alexander the copper-worker did me much wrong: the Lord will give him the reward of his works:
For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself;
For we have had experience of him who says, punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.
So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.
And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.
Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.
Who through faith overcame kingdoms, did righteousness, got their reward, kept the mouths of lions shut,
And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.
But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.
For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;
Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.
A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.
These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.
And I will put her children to death; and all the churches will see that I am he who makes search into the secret thoughts and hearts of men: and I will give to every one of you the reward of your works.
But you have some names in Sardis who have kept clean their robes; and as a reward they will go in white with me.
And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.
For they made the blood of saints and prophets come out like a stream, and blood have you given them for drink; which is their right reward.
Give to her as she gave, even an increased reward for her works; in the cup which was mixed by her, let there be mixed as much again for herself.
See, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to every man the outcome of his works.
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