Philippians 2:16
holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
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Philippians 2:16
holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
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Philippians 2:14
Do all things without complaining and arguing,
Philippians 2:15
that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
Matthew 5:16
Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Ephesians 5:8
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
Isaiah 60:1
“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you!
Isaiah 60:2
For behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
Isaiah 60:3
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Matthew 5:14
You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.
John 8:12
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Romans 13:12
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:9
This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
Philippians 1:10
so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,
Philippians 1:6
being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:8
who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
2 John 1:8
Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
Colossians 1:22
yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
1 Thessalonians 3:13
to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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2 Corinthians 1:14
as also you acknowledged us in part—that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
1 Corinthians 5:5
you are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Philippians 2:12
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
2 Thessalonians 2:2
not to be quickly shaken in your mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,
2 Timothy 1:12
For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
Romans 9:16
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
2 Corinthians 5:12
For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance and not in heart.
Galatians 6:4
But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
Philippians 2:2
make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
2 Timothy 1:18
(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
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Galatians 2:2
I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
1 Corinthians 9:24
Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, so that you may win.
1 Corinthians 9:25
Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians 9:26
I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:8
From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13
Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before,
Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
Hebrews 12:2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Revelation 3:11
I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
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1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
1 Thessalonians 2:20
For you are our glory and our joy.
Galatians 4:11
I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:58
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.
Isaiah 49:4
But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”
Psalms 73:13
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
Isaiah 65:23
They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.
Daniel 12:3
Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.
1 Corinthians 15:2
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
2 Thessalonians 1:10
when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
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Philippians 4:1
Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.
Philippians 2:17
Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
Philippians 2:18
In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
Philippians 2:19
But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.
Philippians 1:27
Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
Philippians 2:30
because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
Philippians 1:4
always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,
Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
Philippians 4:10
But I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.
1 Thessalonians 3:6
But Timothy just now come to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you.
1 Thessalonians 3:7
For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
1 Thessalonians 3:8
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
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Galatians 5:7
You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
Philippians 3:11
if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
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1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.
Colossians 1:29
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
Acts 20:35
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
1 Timothy 5:17
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
Matthew 9:37
Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
Matthew 9:38
Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”
Luke 10:1
Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place where he was about to come.
Luke 10:2
Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.
John 4:38
I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
2 Timothy 2:6
The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.
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Philippians 1:26
that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.
1 Thessalonians 3:10
night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
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1 John 1:1
That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life
1 John 1:2
(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
1 John 1:3
that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
1 John 1:4
And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.
1 John 1:5
This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 John 1:6
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and don’t tell the truth.
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
John 1:4
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
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Matthew 5:15
Neither do you light a lamp and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.
Luke 11:33
“No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.
1 Peter 2:12
having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.
Mark 4:21
He said to them, “Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand?
Luke 8:16
“No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.
Zechariah 4:2
He said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I have seen, and behold, a lamp stand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps which are on the top of it;
Matthew 10:16
“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Revelation 1:20
The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.
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John 6:68
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 6:63
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
Acts 5:20
“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”
Matthew 10:27
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
Acts 13:26
“Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
2 Corinthians 2:16
to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
James 1:18
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
1 Peter 1:23
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
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John 5:39
“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
Ephesians 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
2 Timothy 2:15
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
Deuteronomy 31:26
“Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, that it may be there for a witness against you.
Psalms 40:7
Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
Luke 11:28
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
Romans 1:2
which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
Hebrews 6:5
and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
James 1:21
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
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John 4:36
He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
Luke 15:6
When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’
Luke 15:7
I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
Psalms 51:12
Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
Psalms 51:13
Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners will be converted to you.
Psalms 126:6
He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
Acts 15:3
They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.
James 5:19
Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
James 5:20
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
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2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
1 Timothy 4:10
For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
1 Corinthians 16:16
that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.
1 Thessalonians 5:12
But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,
Revelation 2:3
You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
Luke 10:7
Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.
Romans 16:12
Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
Philippians 4:3
Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
2 Thessalonians 3:8
neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.
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1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
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