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Chapter 35: This Reward is Huge. How Do We Get It?
HOW BLESSED AND WONDERFUL: beloved, are the gifts of God! Life in immortality, splendor in righteousness, truth in perfect confidence, faith in assurance, self-control in holiness! And all these are within our understanding now; what then shall those things be which are prepared for those who wait for Him? The Creator and Father of all worlds, the Most Holy, alone knows their extent and their beauty. Let us therefore earnestly strive to be found among those who wait for Him, so that we may share in His promised gifts.
But how, beloved, shall this be done? If our understanding is fixed by faith towards God; if we earnestly seek the things which are pleasing and acceptable to Him; if we do the things which align with His blameless will; and if we follow the way of truth, casting away from us all unrighteousness and iniquity, along with all covetousness, strife, evil practices, deceit, whispering, and evil-speaking, all hatred of God, pride and arrogance, vanity and ambition. For those who do such things are hateful to God; and not only they who do them, but also those who take pleasure in those who do them.
For the Scripture says, “But to the sinner God said, Why do you proclaim my statutes, and take my covenant into your mouth, seeing you hate instruction, and cast my words behind you? When you saw a thief, you agreed with him, and you shared with adulterers. Your mouth has overflowed with wickedness, and your tongue devised deceit. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. These things you have done, and I kept silent; you thought, wicked one, that I would be like you.
But I will reprove you, and set yourself before you. Consider now these things, you that forget God, lest He tear you in pieces, like a lion, and there be none to deliver. The sacrifice of praise will glorify Me, and there is a way by which I will show him the salvation of God.”
Hear the Scriptures cited in First Epistle to the Corinthians
First Epistle to the Corinthians quotes or alludes to these Bible chapters more than any others. Each link opens the free audio Bible, where the chapter is read aloud alongside the text, cross-references, and what other early Christian writers said about it.
- Hear Exodus 32 (audio Bible) — cited 3 times in this work
- Hear Deuteronomy 32 (audio Bible) — cited 2 times in this work
- Hear Job 4 (audio Bible) — cited 2 times in this work
- Hear Psalms 12 (audio Bible) — cited 2 times in this work
- Hear Psalms 34 (audio Bible) — cited 2 times in this work
- Hear Psalms 37 (audio Bible) — cited 2 times in this work
- Hear Psalms 104 (audio Bible) — cited 2 times in this work
- Hear Proverbs 1 (audio Bible) — cited 2 times in this work
- Hear Isaiah 53 (audio Bible) — cited 2 times in this work
- Hear 1 Corinthians 12 (audio Bible) — cited 2 times in this work
- Hear 1 Corinthians 15 (audio Bible) — cited 2 times in this work
- Hear Hebrews 11 (audio Bible) — cited 2 times in this work