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Noun misthos (reward, wages) in the New Testament
(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
| 5: 12 | Rejoice and be glad, for your reward (misthos) is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. |
| 5: 46 | For if you love those who love you, what reward (misthos) do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? |
| 6: 1 | "Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward (misthos) from your Father in heaven. |
| 6: 2 | "So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward (misthos). |
| 6: 5 | "And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward (misthos). |
| 6: 16 | "And whenever you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so as to show others that they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward (misthos). |
| 10: 41 | Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward (misthos); and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward (misthos) of the righteous; |
| 10: 42 | and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple - truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward (misthos)." |
| 20: 8 | When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and give them their wages (misthos), beginning with the last and then going to the first.' |
Mark
| 9: 41 | For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward (misthos). |
Luke
| 6: 23 | Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward (misthos) is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets. |
| 6: 35 | But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward (misthos) will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. |
| 10: 7 | Remain in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages (misthos). Do not move about from house to house. |
John
| 9: 41 | The reaper is already receiving wages (misthos) and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. |
Acts
| 1: 18 | (Now this man acquired a field with the reward (misthos) of his wickedness; and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. |
1 John
| 1: 8 | Be on your guard, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward (misthos). |
1 Corinthians
| 3: 8 | The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wages (misthos) according to the labor of each. |
| 3: 14 | If what has been built on the foundation survives, the builder will receive a reward (misthos). |
| 9: 17 | For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward (misthos); but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission. |
| 9: 18 | What then is my reward (misthos)? Just this: that in my proclamation I may make the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my rights in the gospel. |
Romans
| 4: 4 | Now to one who works, wages (misthos) are not reckoned as a gift but as something due. |
1 Timothy
| 5: 18 | for the scripture says, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain," and, "The laborer deserves his wages (misthos)." |
James
| 5: 4 | Listen! The wages (misthos) of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. |
2 Peter
| 2: 13 | suffering the penalty as reward (misthos) for doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their dissipation while they feast with you. |
| 2: 15 | They have left the straight road and have gone astray, following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages (misthos) of doing wrong, |
Jude
| 1: 11 | Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain, and abandon themselves to Balaam's error for the sake of wages (misthos), and perish in Korah's rebellion. |
Revelation
| 11: 18 | The nations raged, but your wrath has come, and the time for judging the dead, as reward (misthos) to your servants, the prophets and saints and all who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying those who destroy the earth." |
| 22: 12 | "See, I am coming soon; my reward (misthos) is with me, to repay according to everyone's work. |
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