John 12:26

²⁴knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

¹⁰For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

³⁰“Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now the LORD says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

²⁷My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

²⁴Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

¹Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,^[+] called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

¹⁷then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. ¹⁸Therefore comfort one another with these words.

³For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

¹⁵He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

¹⁸For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.