Hebrews 12:23 Cross References - Goodspeed

²³ to the solemn gathering of all God's elder sons, enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men now at last enjoying the fulfilment of their hopes,

³¹ "When the Son of Man comes in his splendor, with all his angels with him, he will take his seat on his glorious throne, ³² and all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another, just as a shepherd separates his sheep from his goats, ³³ and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at his left. ³⁴ Then the king will say to those at his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take possession of the kingdom which has been destined for you from the creation of the world.

²⁰ But do not be glad that the spirits submit to you, but be glad that your names are enrolled in heaven."

²⁷ and he has given him the authority to act as judge, because he is a son of man.

²⁸ Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.

¹² For now we are looking at a dim reflection in a mirror, but then we shall see face to face. Now my knowledge is imperfect, but then I shall know as fully as God knows me.

⁴⁹ and as we have been like the man of the earth, let us also try to be like the man from heaven.

⁵⁴ And when this mortal nature puts on immortality, then what the Scripture says will come true—"Death has been triumphantly destroyed.

⁸ yet I am confident, and I prefer to leave my home in the body and make my home with the Lord.

²² He has put everything under his feet and made him the indisputable head of the church,

²⁴ Just as the church is in subjection to Christ, so married women must be, in everything, to their husbands. ²⁵ You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her, ²⁶ to consecrate her, after cleansing her with the bath in water through her confession of him, ²⁷ in order to bring the church to himself in all her beauty, without a flaw or a wrinkle or anything of the kind, but to be consecrated and faultless.

²¹ For, as I see it, living means Christ and dying something even better. ²² But if living on here means having my labor bear fruit, I cannot tell which to choose. ²³ I am undecided between the two, for I long to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, far better,

¹² Not that I have secured it yet, or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, because I have been captured by Jesus Christ. ¹³ Brothers, I do not consider that I have captured it yet, only, forgetting what is behind me, and straining toward what lies ahead, ¹⁴ I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward. ¹⁵ Let as many of us therefore as are mature have this attitude. If you have any different attitude, God will make this clear to you. ¹⁶ Only we must live up to what we have already attained. ¹⁷ Follow my example, brothers, all of you, and notice those who follow the pattern we have set you. ¹⁸ For there are many who live, as I have often told you, and tell you now with tears, like enemies of the cross of Christ. ¹⁹ They are doomed to destruction: their appetites are their god; they glory in their shame; they are absorbed in earthly matters. ²⁰ But the commonwealth to which we belong is in heaven, and from it we are eagerly awaiting the coming of a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. ²¹ He will make our poor bodies over to resemble his glorious body, by exerting the power he has to subject everything to himself.

³ And I beg you, my true comrade, help them, for they toiled at my side in spreading the good news, with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

¹² and you will thank the Father who has entitled you to share the lot of God's people in the realm of light.

²⁴ At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.

⁵ This is a proof of God's justice in judging, and it is to prove you worthy of the Kingdom of God, for the sake of which you are suffering, ⁶ since God considers it only just to repay with suffering those who are making you suffer ⁷ and to give rest to you who are suffering and to us, when our Lord Jesus appears from heaven, with his mighty angels

⁵ for if a man does not know how to conduct his own household, how can he look after a church of God?

¹⁰ For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have showed for his cause, in giving help to your fellow-Christians as you still do. ¹¹ But we want each of you to exhibit this same earnestness to the very end with regard to your confidence in your hope, ¹² so that you may never grow careless, but may learn to follow the example of those who through their faith and endurance are the possessors of God's promises.

²⁷ And just as men are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

⁴ Faith made Abel's sacrifice greater in the sight of God than Cain's; through faith he gained God's approval as an upright man, for God himself approved his offering, and through faith even when he was dead he still spoke.

⁴⁰ for God had resolved upon something still better for us, that they might not reach the fulfilment of their hopes except with us.

¹⁸ Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

²³ He was abused but he did not retort. He suffered but he did not threaten, but committed his case to him who judges justly.

¹⁴ I said to him, "You know, my lord." He said to me, "They are the people who come through the great persecution, who have washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ That is why they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he who is seated on the throne will shelter them. ¹⁶ They will never be hungry or thirsty again, and never again will the sun or any burning heat distress them, ¹⁷ for the Lamb who is in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

⁸ All the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not from the foundation of the world been written in the slain Lamb's book of life, will worship it.

⁴ They are the men who have not been defiled by relations with women; they are celibates. It is they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been ransomed from among men as the first-fruits for God and the Lamb,

¹⁵ Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was flung into the fiery lake.