2 Corinthians 5:9
For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.
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2 Corinthians 5:9
For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.
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Genesis 4:7
If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.
2 Samuel 24:2
And the king said to Joab and the captains of the army, who were with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, and have all the people numbered, so that I may be certain of the number of the people.
Ecclesiastes 9:7
Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.
Hebrews 12:28
If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect:
Hebrews 13:16
But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.
1 Peter 1:17
And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:
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Exodus 20:12
Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
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Exodus 39:33
Then they took the House to Moses, the tent with all the things for it; its hooks, its boards, its rods, its pillars, and its bases;
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2 Samuel 23:5
For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?
Job 14:14
If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
Psalms 16:11
You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.
Psalms 17:15
As for me, I will see your face in righteousness: when I am awake it will be joy enough for me to see your form.
John 14:3
And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.
John 17:24
Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.
2 Corinthians 4:18
While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Philippians 1:23
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
Philippians 1:24
Still, to go on in the flesh is more necessary because of you.
2 Timothy 1:12
And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till that day.
1 Peter 1:7
So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
1 John 2:28
And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.
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2 Samuel 24:23
All this does the servant of my lord the king give to the king. And Araunah said, May the Lord your God be pleased with your offering!
Job 42:9
And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job.
Ezekiel 20:40
For in my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, says the Lord, there all the children of Israel, all of them, will be my servants in the land; there I will take pleasure in them, and there I will be worshipped with your offerings and the first-fruits of the things you give, and with all your holy things.
Ezekiel 43:27
And when these days have come to an end, then on the eighth day and after, the priests will make your burned offerings on the altar and your peace-offerings; and I will take pleasure in you, says the Lord.
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1 Chronicles 23:5
Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise.
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2 Chronicles 31:20
This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.
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2 Chronicles 31:21
And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.
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Psalms 19:13
Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.
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Psalms 73:23
But still I am ever with you; you have taken me by my right hand.
Psalms 73:24
Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.
Psalms 73:25
Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth.
Psalms 73:26
My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.
Revelation 7:14
And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 7:15
This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them.
Revelation 7:16
They will never be in need of food or drink: and they will never again be troubled by the burning heat of the sun:
Revelation 7:17
For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.
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Exodus 28:38
And it will be over Aaron's brow, so that Aaron will be responsible for any error in all the holy offerings made by the children of Israel; it will be on his brow at all times, so that their offerings may be pleasing to the Lord.
Isaiah 56:7
I will make them come to my holy mountain, and will give them joy in my house of prayer; I will take pleasure in the burned offerings which they make on my altar: for my house will be named a house of prayer for all peoples.
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Matthew 6:19
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
Matthew 6:20
But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away:
Matthew 6:21
For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.
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Luke 2:29
Now you are letting your servant go in peace, O Lord, as you have said;
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Luke 2:30
For my eyes have seen your salvation,
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Luke 16:10
He who is true in a little, is true in much; he who is false in small things, is false in great.
1 Corinthians 4:1
Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God.
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Acts 4:19
But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:
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Acts 4:20
For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.
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Matthew 9:37
Then he said to his disciples, There is much grain but not enough men to get it in.
Matthew 9:38
Make prayer, then, to the Lord of the grain-fields, that he may send out workers to get in his grain.
Luke 10:1
Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.
Luke 10:2
And he said to them, There is much grain ready to be cut, but not enough workers: so make prayer to the Lord of the grain-fields that he will send workers to get in the grain.
Luke 10:7
And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.
John 4:38
I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.
Acts 20:35
In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.
Romans 16:12
Give my love to Tryphaena and Tryphosa, workers in the Lord. Give my love to my dear Persis, who did much work in the Lord.
Galatians 4:11
I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.
Philippians 4:3
And I make request to you, true helper in my work, to see to the needs of those women who took part with me in the good news, with Clement and the rest of my brother-workers whose names are in the book of life.
1 Timothy 5:18
For the Writings say, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. And, The worker has a right to his reward.
2 Timothy 2:6
It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.
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Romans 2:29
But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
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Romans 14:7
For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.
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Romans 14:8
As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.
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Romans 14:12
So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.
1 Corinthians 3:12
But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;
1 Corinthians 3:14
If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.
1 Corinthians 3:15
If the fire puts an end to any man's work, it will be his loss: but he will get salvation himself, though as by fire.
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1 Corinthians 4:2
And it is right for such servants to be safe persons.
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Acts 2:22
Men of Israel, give ear to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man who had the approval of God, as was made clear to you by the great works and signs and wonders which God did by him among you, as you yourselves have knowledge,
Romans 16:10
Give my love to Apelles, who has the approval of Christ. Say a kind word to those who are of the house of Aristobulus.
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.
1 Corinthians 15:58
For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 6:1
We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?
2 Corinthians 10:15
Not taking credit to ourselves for what is not our business, that is, for the work of others; but having hope that, with the growth of your faith, we may get the credit for an increase which is the effect of our work,
Philippians 2:30
Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, putting his life in danger to make your care for me complete.
Colossians 4:3
And making prayer for us, that God may give us an open door for the preaching of the word, the secret of Christ, for which I am now in chains;
1 Thessalonians 1:3
Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
2 Timothy 2:4
A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.
2 Timothy 2:15
Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.
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2 Corinthians 1:12
For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:2
And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.
2 Corinthians 12:19
It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.
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John 17:10
(All mine are yours, and yours are mine) and I have glory in them.
2 Corinthians 4:12
So then, death is working in us, but life in you.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.
2 Corinthians 5:4
For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.
Philippians 3:8
Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,
2 Timothy 1:18
(May he have the Lord's mercy in that day); and of all he did for me at Ephesus you have full knowledge.
2 Timothy 2:10
But I undergo all things for the saints, so that they may have salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
1 Peter 4:13
But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy.
1 John 3:2
My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.
1 John 3:3
And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.
Revelation 20:6
Happy and holy is he who has a part in this first coming: over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will be ruling with him a thousand years.
Revelation 22:3
And there will be no more curse: and the high seat of God and of the Lamb will be there; and his servants will be worshipping him;
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Romans 3:24
And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:
Romans 3:25
Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;
Romans 4:25
Who was put to death for our evil-doing, and came to life again so that we might have righteousness.
Romans 5:9
Much more, if we now have righteousness by his blood, will salvation from the wrath of God come to us through him.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,
1 John 1:7
But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
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2 Corinthians 8:21
For the business has been so ordered by us as to have the approval, not only of the Lord, but of men.
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;
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2 Corinthians 11:28
In addition to all the other things, there is that which comes on me every day, the care of all the churches.
1 Timothy 4:7
But have nothing to do with unclean and foolish stories. Give yourself training in religion:
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Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:
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1 Corinthians 7:22
For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.
1 Corinthians 7:23
It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.
1 Corinthians 7:34
And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.
Colossians 3:23
Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;
Colossians 3:24
Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.
Colossians 4:1
Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.
Titus 2:9
Servants are to be under the authority of their masters, pleasing them in all things, without argument;
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1 Thessalonians 2:17
But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;
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1 Thessalonians 4:14
For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.
1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.
1 Thessalonians 4:16
Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:18
So then, give comfort to one another with these words.
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1 Thessalonians 5:22
Keep from every form of evil.
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2 Thessalonians 1:6
For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,
2 Thessalonians 1:7
And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire,
2 Thessalonians 1:8
To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:
2 Thessalonians 1:9
Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,
2 Thessalonians 1:10
At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith (because our witness among you had effect) in that day.
2 Peter 3:7
But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.
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1 Timothy 5:24
The sins of some men are clearly seen, going before them to be judged; but with others, their sins go after them.
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1 Timothy 5:25
In the same way, there are good works which are clearly seen; and those which are not so, may not be kept secret.
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Matthew 5:16
Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Matthew 6:1
Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
Matthew 6:4
So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
Matthew 6:18
So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
Matthew 23:5
But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,
Romans 14:23
But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.
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1 Corinthians 9:25
And every man who takes part in the sports has self-control in all things. Now they do it to get a crown which is of this world, but we for an eternal crown.
Hebrews 13:17
Give ear to those who are rulers over you, and do as they say: for they keep watch over your souls, ready to give an account of them; let them be able to do this with joy and not with grief, because that would be of no profit to you.
1 Peter 5:1
I who am myself one of the rulers of the church, and a witness of the death of Christ, having my part in the coming glory, send this serious request to the chief men among you:
1 Peter 5:2
Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;
1 Peter 5:3
Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
1 Peter 5:4
And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.
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Ephesians 4:25
And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.
Colossians 1:9
For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,
Colossians 2:8
Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:
Colossians 2:23
These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.
Hebrews 13:21
Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
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1 Peter 2:13
Keep all the laws of men because of the Lord; those of the king, who is over all,
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John 6:27
Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.
2 Peter 1:10
For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:
2 Peter 1:11
For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 3:14
For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.
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