Matthew 5:12
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Rejoice
- Luke 6:23; Acts 5:41; Acts 16:25; Romans 5:3; 2 Corinthians 4:17; Philippians 2:17; Colossians 1:24; James 1:2; 1 Peter 4:13
- for great
- Matthew 6:1, 2, 4, 5, 16; Matthew 10:41, 42; Matthew 16:27; Genesis 15:1; Ruth 2:12; Psalm 19:11; Psalm 58:11; Proverbs 11:18; Isaiah 3:10; Luke 6:23, 35; 1 Corinthians 3:8; Colossians 3:24; Hebrews 11:6, 26
- for so
- Matthew 21:34–38; Matthew 23:31–37; 1 Kings 18:4, 13; 1 Kings 19:2, 10–14; 1 Kings 21:20; 1 Kings 22:8, 26, 27; 2 Kings 1:9; 2 Chronicles 16:10; 2 Chronicles 24:20–22; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Nehemiah 9:26; Jeremiah 2:30; Jeremiah 26:8, 21–23; Luke 6:23; Luke 11:47–51; Luke 13:34; Acts 7:51; 1 Thessalonians 2:15