Mark 12:5

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.

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

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

Always rejoice.

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

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.”

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.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

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

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

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

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

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

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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.

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

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

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.”

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

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

You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

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.

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

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

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”

and they fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day, so that I should remove it from before my face,

I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Every one of you must return now from his evil way, amend your doings, and don’t go after other gods to serve them, then you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers:’ but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.

Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

“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.

If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.

The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

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

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

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

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

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,

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.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.” ’ ”

Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

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

Is there a thing of which it may be said, “Behold, this is new?” It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’ ” says Yahweh.

I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.

This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. ‘Don’t be afraid.’

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

and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

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