Mateus 5:12

12 Alegrem-se e regozijem-se, porque grande é a sua recompensa nos céus, pois da mesma forma perseguiram os profetas que viveram antes de vocês.

Mateus 5:12 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice and be exceeding glad
Because of the honour put upon them, the glory they bring to Christ and his cause, by cheerfully suffering for it; and because of the glory and happiness that shall follow upon their sufferings:

for great is your reward in heaven;
not of debt, but of grace; for there is no proportion or comparison between what the saints suffer for Christ, and the glory that shall be revealed in them by him; not in earth, but in heaven. Saints must not expect their reward here, but hereafter, when God himself will be their reward; he will be all in all; Christ and all his glory, glory and all the riches of it will be the reward of the inheritance, and which must needs be a "great" one. And the more to animate them to suffer with joyfulness, and to support them under all their reproaches and persecutions, it is added;

for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you;
as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah, and others; which shows, that what should befall them was no new and strange thing, but what had been the lot of the most eminent servants of God in former ages.

Mateus 5:12 In-Context

10 Bem-aventurados os perseguidos por causa da justiça,pois deles é o Reino dos céus.
11 “Bem-aventurados serão vocês quando, por minha causa, os insultarem, os perseguirem e levantarem todo tipo de calúnia contra vocês.
12 Alegrem-se e regozijem-se, porque grande é a sua recompensa nos céus, pois da mesma forma perseguiram os profetas que viveram antes de vocês.
13 “Vocês são o sal da terra. Mas, se o sal perder o seu sabor, como restaurá-lo? Não servirá para nada, exceto para ser jogado fora e pisado pelos homens.
14 “Vocês são a luz do mundo. Não se pode esconder uma cidade construída sobre um monte.
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