'for I will certainly honor you greatly, and I will do whatever you say to me. Therefore please come, curse this people for me.' "

Then Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not earnestly send to you, calling for you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?"

So Jesus said to them, "Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

"But many [who are] first will be last, and the last first.

But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!

Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ

By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly;

nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock;

Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but [that] we may receive a full reward.