Hebrews 12:3

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

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

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

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

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

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

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

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

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

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

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.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

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.

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?

For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Then Mordecai asked them to return this answer to Esther: “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews.

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”

Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

The Pharisees therefore said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”

Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,