Reward for enduring temptation, = The crown of life.
Penalty for not enduring Life? = You were never a believer, Gods Spirit was never in you, so you suffer the same as all non believers.
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.
One will not simply receive the crown because he endured temptation, he will only receive it if he first loved the Lord, which gave him eternal life, not enduring the temptation. Two different things here, salvation and rewards.
You must be given salvation, before God will give you your rewards. Read it again
JH :-)
Kim, the danger-prone teenage daughter of Counter Terrorism Unit special agent Jack Bauer, fits a certain niche in these frantic times. Without meaning to, she has come to represent the vapidity and naive innocence of a Britney Nation caught up in something deadly serious, with only her wits and the occasional visibility of her nipples to save her. ...
Kim is us. We are Kim. Every time your cell phone doesn't work, every time you get kidnapped, every time you lose your car keys or, say, can't get away from trained assassins, or every time you're stuck in traffic (or causing a jam, like the time you set that deputy's vehicle on fire, or the time the cops found your boss's dead wife in the trunk of the car, which, technically, you stole from him), every time your boyfriend loses his leg trying to help you thwart disaster, just think of Kim and know you're not alone.