How to Fast

“Whenever you fast, don’t be sad-faced like the hypocrites. For they make their faces unattractive so their fasting is obvious to people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

so that you don’t show your fasting to people but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Anyone who welcomes a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. And anyone who welcomes a righteous person because he’s righteous will receive a righteous person’s reward.

And whoever gives just a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple —I assure you: He will never lose his reward!”

For the Son of Man is going to come with His angels in the glory of His Father, and then He will reward each according to what he has done.

That slave whose master finds him working when he comes will be rewarded.

And whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of My name, since you belong to the Messiah—I assure you: He will never lose his reward.

“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! Take note—your reward is great in heaven, for this is the way their ancestors used to treat the prophets.

But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is gracious to the ungrateful and evil.

Rewards and Punishment

“Lord,” Peter asked, “are You telling this parable to us or to everyone?”

That slave whose master finds him working when he comes will be rewarded.

Now the one planting and the one watering are one in purpose, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

If anyone’s work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward, but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

What then is my reward? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my authority in the gospel.

knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ.

and to reward with rest you who are afflicted, along with us. This will take place at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His powerful angels,

So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.

For he considered the reproach because of the Messiah to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since his attention was on the reward.

Watch yourselves so you don’t lose what we have worked for, but that you may receive a full reward.

The nations were angry, but Your wrath has come. The time has come for the dead to be judged and to give the reward to Your servants the prophets, to the saints, and to those who fear Your name, both small and great, and the time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth.

“Look! I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me to repay each person according to what he has done.