Colossians 3:24
Good News Translation
Remember that the Lord will give you as a reward what he has kept for his people. For Christ is the real Master you serve.

New Revised Standard Version
since you know that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you serve the Lord Christ.

Contemporary English Version
In fact, the Lord Christ is the one you are really serving, and you know he will reward you.

New American Bible
knowing that you will receive from the Lord the due payment of the inheritance; be slaves of the Lord Christ.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.

ye shall.

Colossians 2:18 Let no man seduce you, willing in humility and religion of angels, walking in the things which he hath not seen, in vain puffed up by the sense of his flesh:

Genesis 15:1 Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.

Ruth 2:12 The Lord render unto thee for thy work, and mayst thou receive a full reward of the Lord the God of Israel, to whom thou art come, and under whose wings thou art fled.

Proverbs 11:18 Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.

Matthew 5:12,46 Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you. . . .

Matthew 6:1,2,5,16 Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in heaven. . . .

Matthew 10:41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man.

Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest. For he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.

Luke 14:14 And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.

Romans 2:6,7 Who will render to every man according to his works. . . .

Romans 4:4,5 Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace but according to debt. . . .

1 Corinthians 3:8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth, are one. And every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour.

1 Corinthians 9:17,18 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me. . . .

Ephesians 6:8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man shall do, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

Hebrews 9:15 And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of his death for the redemption of those transgressions which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Hebrews 10:35 Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.

Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is: and is a rewarder to them that seek him.

for.

John 12:26 If any man minister to me, let him follow me: and where I am, there also shall my minister be. If any man minister to me, him will my Father honour.

Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God.

Romans 14:18 For he that in this serveth Christ pleaseth God and is approved of men.

1 Corinthians 7:22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a bondman, is the freeman of the Lord. Likewise he that is called, being free, is the bondman of Christ.

Galatians 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Ephesians 6:6 Not serving to the eye, as it were pleasing men: but, as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ: to them that have obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James: to them that are beloved in God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called.

Context
Christian Households
23Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not to men: 24Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ. 25For he that doth wrong shall receive for that which he hath done wrongfully. And there is no respect of persons with God.…
Cross References
Acts 20:32
And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, who is able to build up and to give an inheritance among all the sanctified.

1 Corinthians 7:22
For he that is called in the Lord, being a bondman, is the freeman of the Lord. Likewise he that is called, being free, is the bondman of Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:23
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread,

Ephesians 6:8
Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man shall do, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

1 Peter 1:4
Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot fade, reserved in heaven for you,

Colossians 3:23
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