Matthew 5:46

But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

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.”

David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.

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

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.

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.

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.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

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

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.

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

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.”

Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

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.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

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

He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

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

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 remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

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.

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

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

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

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

The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,

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

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

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

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

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?”

“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.

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last.”

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.

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.

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

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

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

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

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

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

Yahweh also said, “Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.

then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city.

They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

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.”

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

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.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

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

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

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.