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[Note:\u00a0 <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1<\/strong>\u00a0 page.]<\/span><\/p>\n The Bible constantly exhorts its readers to godly living. The worldly-minded ridicule godliness, believing it only means hardship and deprivation. The Bible says it pays: \u201cGodliness is profitable for all things…\u201d and \u201cGodliness…is great gain\u201d (1 Tim. 4:8; 6:6). Millions who have tried it through the centuries know it is so. How does it pay?<\/p>\n All the foregoing are rewards of godliness while we live here, but the greatest is that which is to come\u2013\u2013eternal life with God and Christ and all of God\u2019s faithful children of all ages (Rom. 2:7; 6:23; 1 John 2:17). We dare not grow weary in godliness and fall by the wayside, for we shall reap the eternal reward only if we faint not (Gal. 6:9). Yes, godliness pays, both for now, \u201cand in the world to come eternal life\u201d (Mark 10:29\u201330)!<\/p>\n [Note: <\/strong>I wrote this article for and it was published in The Lighthouse, <\/em>weekly bulletin of Northpoint Church of Christ, Denton, TX, March 27, 2011, of which I was editor.]<\/p>\n Attribution: <\/strong>From thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner, curator, and administrator.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 0[Note:\u00a0 This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1\u00a0 page.] The Bible constantly exhorts its readers to godly living. The worldly-minded ridicule godliness, believing it only means hardship and deprivation. The Bible says it pays: \u201cGodliness is profitable for all…<\/p>\n\n