Colossians 3:24

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,

Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

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.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

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

“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

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 love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

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

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

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

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

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

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,