Verses on Reward

Here are just a few of the hundreds of verses in the Bible in which God promises to reward faithful service to Him.  Many of these promises are to people who suffer yet continue to be faithful to God.

• I Samuel 26:23 The LORD will repay each man for his righteousness and his faithfulness.
• Job 34:11 God repays a man for what he has done; he brings upon him what his conduct deserves.
• Proverbs 12:14 From the fruit of his lips a man is filled with good things as surely as the work of his hands rewards him.
• Proverbs 14:14 The faithless will be fully repaid for their ways, and the good man rewarded for his.
• Isaiah 3:10 Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. 
• Isaiah 62:11 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.' "
• Isaiah 49:4 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."
• Jeremiah 17:10   “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."
• Jeremiah 31:16   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. 
• Jeremiah 32:19  Your eyes are open to all the ways of men; you reward everyone according to his conduct and as his deeds deserve. 
• Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit, theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (etc.  Each of the following “blessings” is a reward.)  12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you...
• Matthew 6:1 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.   3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret.  Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.  6 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.  17 But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face… [so] your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.   19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.  21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
• Matthew 10:41 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. 42 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."  (See also Mark 9:41)
• Matthew 16:27  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. (see also Mark 8:34-35; Luke 9:23-24; John 12:25)
• Matthew 25 21 “His master replied, `Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!'
• Mark 4:24 “Consider carefully what you hear," he continued. "With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more. 25 Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him."
• Luke 6:22  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.  23 Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven.  35 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.
• Luke 14:12 Then Jesus said to his host, "When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. 13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."
• Luke 18:22  When Jesus heard this, he said to [the rich ruler], "You still lack one thing.  Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."  … 28 Peter said to him, "We have left all we had to follow you!"  29  "I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30  will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life."  (See Matt. 19:16-30 for the complete conversation with the rich ruler.)
• Luke 19:17   'Well done, my good servant!' his master replied. ’Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.'
• Romans 2:6   God "will give to each person according to what he has done." 
• I Corinthians 3:8 The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.
• II Corinthians 5:9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
• II Corinthians 9:6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
• Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.  8 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. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.  
• Ephesians 6:5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. 6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. 7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men, 8 because you know that the Lord will reward everyone for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.
• Hebrews 11:6 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.
• II John 8 Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.
• Revelation 2:23 Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
• Revelation 11:18b 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."
• Revelation 22 12 “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done.