New Revised Standard Version
But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”

Contemporary English Version
So you must be brave. Don't give up! God will honor you for obeying him.

New American Bible
But as for you, be strong and do not slack off, for there shall be a reward for what you do.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands be weakened: for there shall be a reward for your work.

Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands be weakened: for there shall be a reward for your work.

ye strong

Joshua 1:7,9 Take courage therefore, and be very valiant: that thou mayst observe and do all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayst understand all things which thou dost. . . .

1 Chronicles 28:20 And David said to Solomon his son: Act like a man, and take courage, and do: fear not, and be not dismayed: for the Lord my God will be with thee, and will not leave thee, nor forsake thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.

Psalm 27:14 Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

Isaiah 35:3,4 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees. . . .

Daniel 10:19 And he said: Fear not, O man of desires, peace be to thee: take courage, and be strong. And when he spoke to me, I grew strong, and I said: Speak, O my lord, for thou hast strengthened me.

1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: do manfully and be strengthened.

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord and in the might of his power.

your work

Genesis 15:1 Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.

Ruth 2:12 The Lord render unto thee for thy work, and mayst thou receive a full reward of the Lord the God of Israel, to whom thou art come, and under whose wings thou art fled.

Psalm 19:11 For thy servant keepeth them, and in keeping them there is a great reward.

Psalm 58:11 And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.

Matthew 5:12,46 Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you. . . .

Matthew 6:1,4,6,18 Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in heaven. . . .

Matthew 10:41,42 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man. . . .

Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest. For he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.

Romans 4:4,5 Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace but according to debt. . . .

1 Corinthians 3:8,14 Now he that planteth and he that watereth, are one. And every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labour. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:17,18 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable: always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Colossians 3:24 Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do minister to the saints.

Hebrews 10:35 Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.

2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that you lose not the things which you have wrought: but that you may receive a full reward.