Yeah ... good question. I know of 5 crowns:
Incorruptible crown -
1 Corinthians 9:
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway [not stand approved; disqualified = no crown].
Crown of rejoicing -
1 Thessalongians 2:
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
20 For ye are our glory and joy.
Crown of righteousness -
2 Timothy 4:
7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Crown of life -
James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Crown of glory -
1 Peter 5:
1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
I believe we will cast our crowns at the feet of Jesus ... He is the One Who is worthy and He is the One Who works within us as without Him, we can do nothing (John 15:5).
I also agree with @2ndTimothyGroup that we should not focus on the crowns (or the rewards for that matter). If the only reason we serve the Lord is to get a reward or crown after all He has done for us and in us, that is not serving the Lord ... it is serving self (imho). Having said that, I believe it is good to know what God tells us in His Word ... and He tells us about crowns and rewards for a reason. If we seek to know His reasoning, all is good. If we seek for our own carnal reasoning ... not so good (again jmho).
Thanks for responding.
Maybe I will look into the crown's you have mentioned.
I also agree with
@2ndTimothyGroup
I spent the most of my Christian life doing works for God in the hope I would be saved.
That is a long hard road to walk and very insecure.
Genuinely for me I felt my works might save me and spent most of Christian life waiting for the 3 strikes and you are out.
Praise God he taught me and worked so much in my life.
The first and biggest work he installed into me was that he loved me full stop.
When the Holy Spirit revealed to me that God loves me as much as he loves Jesus and I am saved by faith through the grace of God I broke down and cried.
It took a while to work through it.
However I would say that the works I focused on was "NOT SINNING"
My focus changed from not being sinless to not sinning less.
However I would say that people I walked with and helped was out of love and compassion for them. Broken hurt people.
Just like I was.
Won't go into it my life experiences are not good.
Shocking childhood rejected by my mum and thrown out in teenage years to be fostered by a Christian family had spending the next six years being sexually abused by my foster dad (side not was sexually abused by a cousin when I was about 8 and I was having to sleep in his bed again would I have to play with his willy it was glossed over)
You mentioned Eph 2:10
I myself hang my hat on
Romans 8:28-30
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
What saddens me is that most people that I have walked with who are hurting and have been told focus on v28.
The focus is that God makes good all the bad things that have happened to us.
Total rubbish. He cannot make it good. Sin cannot be made good.
I then focus on 29:30
He works good in all the things for those who love him in order to conform them to image of his son.
Now that being the case we will become like Jesus.
We will walk with broken people will help them.
God has used me to walk with people who have suffered like me and the consequences as a result.
I thank God for this because Jesus did this and has helped and is helping me to do it.
What a priveled to be used by God for the right reasons.
Just wanna be Jesus.