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Matthew 5:11-12: “’Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.’”  (cf. Mk. 9:41; Jas. 1:12; Rev. 2:10, 3:11-12)

Matthew 6:3-4: “But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” (cf. 6:5-6,16-18; 10:41-42)

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Matthew 19:29: “’And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.’” (cf. 19:21)

Mark 10:29-30: “Jesus said, ’Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.’”

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Luke 6:38: “’give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back.’” (cf. 6:35; Col. 3:23-24)

1 Corinthians 3:6-9: “I planted, Apol'los watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.” (cf. 3:14; 2 Cor. 9:6; 2 Tim. 4:8)

Ephesians 6:8: “knowing that whatever good any one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.” (cf. Matt. 16:27)

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Hebrews 10:35: “Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.” (cf. 6:10; Matt. 20:4; 2 John 8)

Hebrews 11:6: “And without faith it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” (cf. 1 Cor. 9:24-27)

(See also, the Catechism, #2008-2011)

2 Corinthians 6:1: “Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain.”

With regard to the condition of salvation, it may be remembered that I allow, not only faith, but likewise holiness or universal obedience, to be the ordinary condition of final salvation.

(A Farther Appeal, 1745, Works, London: 1831, VIII, 68 ff.)

God works in you - therefore you must work. You must work together with Him, or He will cease working.

(Working Out Our Own Salvation, 1788, Works, VI, 511 ff.)

John Wesley (founder of Methodism)

Acts 4:33 And with great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

Romans 5:20 Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?

Ephesians 4:7: But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.

James 4:6  But he gives more grace; therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble." (1 Peter 5:5 also cites this saying)

2 Peter 1:2 May grace and peace be multiplied to you . . .

2 Peter 3:18: But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. . . .

 

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