1 Corinthians 15:8

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”

He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

He said to me, “Daniel, you greatly beloved man, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for I have been sent to you, now.” When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.

He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

As I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly a great light shone around me from the sky.

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

who testified to God’s word and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

and begged him much, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live.”

For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and glorified God.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;

When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.