Bible Verses About Reward

"So if you listen carefully to my mitzvot which I am giving you today, to love ADONAI your God and serve him with all your heart and all your being;

then, [says ADONAI,] 'I will give your land its rain at the right seasons, including the early fall rains and the late spring rains; so that you can gather in your wheat, new wine and olive oil;

and I will give your fields grass for your livestock; with the result that you will eat and be satisfied.'

But be careful not to let yourselves be seduced, so that you turn aside, serving other gods and worshipping them.

Therefore, you are to store up these words of mine in your heart and in all your being; tie them on your hand as a sign; put them at the front of a headband around your forehead;

teach them carefully to your children, talking about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up;

and write them on the door-frames of your house and on your gates -

so that you and your children will live long on the land ADONAI swore to your ancestors that he would give them for as long as there is sky above the earth. (vii & Maftir)

"See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse -

the blessing, if you listen to the mitzvot of ADONAI your God that I am giving you today;

and the curse, if you don't listen to the mitzvot of ADONAI your God, but turn aside from the way I am ordering you today and follow other gods that you have not known.

"When ADONAI your God brings you into the land you are entering in order to take possession of it, you are to put the blessing on Mount G'rizim and the curse on Mount 'Eival.

Guard yourself against allowing your heart to entertain the mean-spirited thought that because the seventh year, the year of sh'mittah is at hand, you would be stingy toward your needy brother and not give him anything; for then he may cry out to ADONAI against you, and it will be your sin.

Rather, you must give to him; and you are not to be grudging when you give to him. If you do this, ADONAI your God will bless you in all your work, in everything you undertake -

for there will always be poor people in the land. That is why I am giving you this order, 'You must open your hand to your poor and needy brother in your land.'

You must let the mother go, but you may take the chicks for yourself; so that things will go well with you, and you will prolong your life.

"When harvesting the grain in your field, if you forgot a sheaf of grain there, you are not to go back and get it; it will remain there for the foreigner, the orphan and the widow, so that ADONAI your God will bless you in all the work you do.

You are to have a correct and fair weight, and you are to have a correct and fair measure, so that you will prolong your days in the land ADONAI your God is giving you.

"These are the ones who are to stand on Mount G'rizim and bless the people after you have crossed the Yarden: Shim'on, Levi, Y'hudah, Yissakhar, Yosef and Binyamin;

while these are to stand on Mount 'Eival for the curse: Re'uven, Gad, Asher, Z'vulun, Dan and Naftali.

The L'vi'im, speaking loudly, will proclaim to every man of Isra'el:

"'A curse on anyone who makes a carved or metal image, something ADONAI detests, the handiwork of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret!'All the people are to respond by saying, 'Amen!'

"'A curse on anyone who dishonors his father or mother.'All the people are to say, 'Amen!'

"'A curse on anyone who moves his neighbor's boundary marker.' All the people are to say, 'Amen!'

"'A curse on anyone who causes a blind person to lose his way on the road.'All the people are to say, 'Amen!'