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Do we want rewards from God? As we will see in this word study,
rewards are what is deserved through our effort. Synonyms are Pay and Wages. The circumstances of life may fool us in this reguard. There is the tendency to believe ease in life is the acknowledgment of God that we are doing well. And similarly bad circumstances befall us when the judgment of God upon us. After all: Galatians 6:7-8 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.How about this one? Now be careful, this is an accusation. Job 4:7-9 "Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?Define the term. It is the word that we study. So what is the word used here. Webster's Main Entry: 1 re�ward Pronunciation: ri-'word Function: transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old North French rewarder to regard, reward, from re- + warder to watch, guard, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German wartEn to watch -- more at WARD Date: 14th century 1 : to give a reward to or for 2 : RECOMPENSE Pronunciation: 're-k&m-"pen(t)s Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): -pensed; -pens�ing Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French recompenser, from Late Latin recompensare, from Latin re- + compensare to compensate Date: 15th century 1 a : to give something to by way of compensation (as for a service rendered or damage incurred) b : to pay for 2 : to return in kind : REQUITE synonym see PAY 1 a : to make due return to for services rendered or property delivered b : to engage for money : HIRE <you couldn't pay me to do that> 2 a : to give in return for goods or service <pay wages> b : to discharge indebtedness for : SETTLE <pay a bill> c : to make a disposal or transfer of (money) Main Entry: 2 recompense Function: noun Date: 15th century : an equivalent or a return for something done, suffered, or given : COMPENSATION <offered in recompense for injuries> Strongs misthos {mis-thos'} AV - reward 24, hire 3, wages 2; 29 total 1) dues paid for work a) wages, hire 2) reward: used of the fruit naturally resulting from toils and endeavours a) in both senses, rewards and punishments b) of the rewards which God bestows, or will bestow, upon good deeds and endeavours c) of punishments apodidomi {ap-od-eed'-o-mee} AV - pay 9, give 9, render 9, reward 7, sell 3, yield 2, misc 9; 48 total 1) to deliver, to give away for one's own profit what is one's own, to sell 2) to pay off, discharge what is due a) a debt, wages, tribute, taxes, produce due b) things promised under oath c) conjugal duty d) to render account 3) to give back, restore 4) to requite, recompense in a good or a bad senseUsing the Gospelcom.net bible A search for the word "reward" yields 76 results. Rewards are material or spiritual. This is the first verse with the word reward. God himself is a reward. After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward. Children are a gift and a reward. Then Leah said, "God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband." So she named him Issachar. As a bribe for Balam. because I will reward you handsomely and do whatever you say. Come and put a curse on these people for me." Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why didn't you come to me? Am I really not able to reward you?" Now leave at once and go home! I said I would reward you handsomely, but the LORD has kept you from being rewarded." Kindness and faithfulness. Toward family. Boaz replied, "I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband-how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the LORD , the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge." Kindness and faithfulness. Toward those who seek you ill. When a man finds his enemy, does he let him get away unharmed? May the LORD reward you well for the way you treated me today. The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. The LORD delivered you into my hands today, but I would not lay a hand on the LORD's anointed. For deeds done. when a man told me, 'Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and put him to death in Ziklag. That was the reward I gave him for his news! "The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me. For working on reformation. For punishment. Is a reward expected. Elihu says: Should God then reward you on your terms, when you refuse to repent? You must decide, not I; so tell me what you know. O LORD , by your hand save me from such men, from men of this world whose reward is in this life. You still the hunger of those you cherish; their sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children. By what you do in this life. Both good and evil. Then men will say, "Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth." From the fruit of his lips a man is filled with good things as surely as the work of his hands rewards him. Is the reward what you thought. I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. 11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. See, the Sovereign LORD comes with power, and his arm rules for him. See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him. You may get nothing in this life. Are you ok with that? But I said, "I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing. Yet what is due me is in the LORD's hand, and my reward is with my God." Does the reward come in spite of our failings. "For I, the LORD , love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity. In my faithfulness I will reward them and make an everlasting covenant with them. What about time. It may not come in your lifetime. The LORD has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: "Say to the Daughter of Zion, 'See, your Savior comes! See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.' " "I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve." This is what the LORD says: "Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded," declares the LORD . "They will return from the land of the enemy. great are your purposes and mighty are your deeds. Your eyes are open to all the ways of men; you reward everyone according to his conduct and as his deeds deserve. Effort and hard work may be fruitless. "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon drove his army in a hard campaign against Tyre; every head was rubbed bare and every shoulder made raw. Yet he and his army got no reward from the campaign he led against Tyre. Other times it can work out. I have given him Egypt as a reward for his efforts because he and his army did it for me, declares the Sovereign LORD . Some rewards can seem wonderful. But if your with God, "Kings and Kingdoms will all pass away. But there is something about that Name". But if you tell me the dream and explain it, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. So tell me the dream and interpret it for me." Then Daniel answered the king, "You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the writing for the king and tell him what it means. True rewards are within. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? Motivation plays a part. If you look inward. The reward is nontransferable. "Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. "So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. "When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. My AWANA Verse. Kids are sure thirsty. Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward. And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward." For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. What is done even in bad times. Endurance is not in vain. Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. "Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their fathers treated the prophets. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. But who gives us the ability to work? Who gives us the work itself to do? What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe--as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames. If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me. What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make use of my rights in preaching it. Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God's law but am under Christ's law), so as to win those not having the law. To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. Your station in life is not the determiner of what you receive. Only those things done for Christ. because you know that the Lord will reward everyone for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free. since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Don't take it for granted. God is serious. If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering. Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. For in just a very little while, "He who is coming will come and will not delay. But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him." But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Moses made the choice. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. Each of us must persist in the walk of faith. Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. We can take our eyes off the reward. There are turbulent times are ahead. The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great– and for destroying those who destroy the earth." "Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard 1"For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. 2He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. 3"About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4He told them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.' 5So they went. 6"He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?' 7" 'Because no one has hired us,' they answered. "He said to them, 'You also go and work in my vineyard.' 8"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.' 9"The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. 10So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12'These men who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, 'and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.' 13"But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? 14Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?' 16"So the last will be first, and the first will be last." Would you rather have the gift than the reward or wage. For the Scripture says, "Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain,"[Deut. 25:4] and "The worker deserves his wages."[ 5:18 Luke 10:7] Main Entry: 1gift  Pronunciation: 'gift Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse, something given, talent; akin to Old English giefan to give Date: 12th century 1 : a notable capacity, talent, or endowment 2 : something voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation 3 : the act, right, or power of giving Search words "gift" 160 results. The Gifts Christ received. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh. If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! The gifts we gave him. Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." The most precious gift. On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Peter answered: "May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man's sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ. Sowing Generously 6Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 9As it is written: ���"He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; �������his righteousness endures forever." 10Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 11You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. 12This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. 13Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. 14And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. 15Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! and the ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand and knelt in front of him and mocked him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they said. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!" Therefore, my brothers, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, that is how you should stand firm in the Lord, dear friends! For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you? Similarly, if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the victor's crown unless he competes according to the rules. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day–and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing. Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life. |