Psalm 19:11
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11 Moreover, by them is your servant warned;
in keeping them there is great reward.(A)
Proverbs 29:18
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18 Where there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint,
but happy are those who keep the law.(A)
Psalm 119:11
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11 I treasure your word in my heart,
so that I may not sin against you.(A)
2 John 8
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8 Be on your guard, so that you do not lose what we[a] have worked for but may receive a full reward.(A)
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James 1:25
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25 But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.(A)
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Hebrews 11:6-7
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6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would approach God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. 7 By faith Noah, warned by God about events as yet unseen, respected the warning and built an ark to save his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir to the righteousness that is in accordance with faith.(A)
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Hebrews 11:26
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26 He considered abuse suffered for the Christ[a] to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to the reward.
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1 Thessalonians 5:14
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14 And we urge you, brothers and sisters, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them.(A)
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Matthew 6:4
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4 so that your alms may be done in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.[a](A)
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Revelation 14:13
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13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who from now on die in the Lord.” “Yes,”[a] says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them.”(A)
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1 Corinthians 4:14
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Fatherly Admonition
14 I am not writing this to make you ashamed but to admonish you as my beloved children.
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Acts 20:31
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31 Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to warn everyone with tears.(A)
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Matthew 6:18
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18 so that your fasting may be seen not by others but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.[a]
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Matthew 6:6
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6 But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.[a](A)
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Matthew 3:7
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7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his[a] baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?(A)
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Ezekiel 33:3-9
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3 and if the sentinel sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people,(A) 4 then if any who hear the sound of the trumpet do not take warning and the sword comes and takes them away, their blood shall be upon their own heads.(B) 5 They heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; their blood shall be upon themselves. But if they had taken warning, they would have saved their lives.(C) 6 But if the sentinel sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any of them, they are taken away in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at the sentinel’s hand.(D)
7 So you, mortal, I have made a sentinel for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.(E) 8 If I say to the wicked, “O wicked ones, you shall surely die,” and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at your hand. 9 But if you warn the wicked to turn from their ways and they do not turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but you will have saved your life.(F)
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Ezekiel 3:17-21
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17 Mortal, I have made you a sentinel for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.(A) 18 When I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” and you give them no warning and do not speak to warn the wicked from their wicked way in order to save their lives, those wicked persons shall die for their iniquity, but their blood I will require at your hand.(B) 19 But if you warn the wicked and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their wicked way, they shall die for their iniquity, but you will have saved your life.(C) 20 Again, if the righteous turn from their righteousness and commit iniquity and I lay a stumbling block before them, they shall die; because you have not warned them, they shall die for their sin, and their righteous deeds that they have done shall not be remembered, but their blood I will require at your hand.(D) 21 If, however, you warn the righteous not to sin and they do not sin, they shall surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved your life.(E)
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Proverbs 11:18
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18 The wicked earn no real gain,
but those who sow righteousness get a true reward.(A)
Proverbs 6:22-23
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Proverbs 3:16-18
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16 Long life is in her right hand;
in her left hand are riches and honor.(A)
17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
and all her paths are peace.(B)
18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her;
those who hold her fast are called happy.(C)
2 Chronicles 19:10
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10 whenever a case comes to you from your kindred who live in their cities concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or ordinances, then you shall instruct them, so that they may not incur guilt before the Lord and wrath may not come on you and your kindred. Do so, and you will not incur guilt.(A)
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Isaiah 3:10-11
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10 Tell the innocent how fortunate they are,
for they shall eat the fruit of their labors.(A)
11 Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are,
for what their hands have done shall be done to them.(B)
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