The Reward for Service

⁴⁰ “^(A)The one who ^[a]receives you ^[b]receives Me, and ^(B)the one who ^[c]receives Me ^[d]receives Him who sent Me.

¹³ For this reason we also constantly ^(A)thank God that when you received the ^(B)word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it ^(C)not as the word of mere men, but as what it really is, the word of God, ^(D)which also is at work in you who believe.