Hebrews 12:23 Cross References - Riverside

²³ to the festal assembly and congregation of first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,

³¹ "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne ³² and all the nations will be assembled before him. And he will divide them one from another as a shepherd divides the sheep from the goats. ³³ He will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left. ³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right hand, 'Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world!

²⁰ However, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."

²⁷ He has given him authority to do judgment, because he is Son of Man.

²⁸ "Be watchful of yourselves and of all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers. Shepherd the church of God which he bought with his own blood.

¹² For as yet we are looking at puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then face to face. As yet I know in part, but then I shall know fully, as I have been fully known.

⁴⁹ And as we have borne the image of the earthly man, we shall bear the image of the heavenly man.

⁵⁴ When this perishable has clothed itself with imperishability and this mortal has clothed itself with immortality, then will come to pass the word that is written, "Death has been swallowed up in victory.

⁸ I say we are of good courage and wish rather to live in the land foreign to the body and be at home with the Lord.

²² He put all things under his feet and placed him as head over all for the church,

²⁴ But as the church is subject to Christ, so wives are to their husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, ²⁶ that he might make it holy, cleansing it by the washing with water according to his word, ²⁷ that he might present to himself the church glorious, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and faultless.

²¹ For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. ²² If it is to be life in the flesh, that means fruitful work for me. I know not which to choose. ²³ I am under pressure both ways, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for it is far better,

¹² Not that I have already obtained it or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I do not consider myself yet to have laid hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and stretching forward to what is in front ¹⁴ I press toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let us all who are full grown think in this way. If in anything you think differently, even that God will reveal to you, ¹⁶ but so far as we have attained let us walk in the same path. ¹⁷ Unite in imitating me, brethren, and watch those who are living according to our example. ¹⁸ For many are living as I used often to tell you and now say even weeping that they are enemies of the cross of Christ. ¹⁹ Their end is ruin, their God is their stomach, their glory is in their shame, they think earthly thoughts. ²⁰ For the state of which we are citizens is in the heavens and from there we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. ²¹ He will transform the body we have in our low estate into the likeness of the body he has in glory by the power by which he can subject all things to himself.

³ Yes, I ask you, true yokefellow, help them, since they struggled in spreading the good news along with me and Clement and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life.

¹² May you joyfully give thanks to the Father who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy in light.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in what I suffer for your sake, and in my turn am filling up in my flesh what was lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

⁵ This is a proof of God's righteous judgment. It is to make you worthy of God's kingdom, on behalf of which you are suffering, ⁶ since it is just on God's part to repay with trouble those who are troubling you, ⁷ and to repay to you, who are being troubled, rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels.

⁵ But if any one does not know how to preside over his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?

¹⁰ For God is not so unjust as to forget your work and the love that you have shown to his name as you have served and are still serving the holy. ¹¹ But we desire to have each one of you show to the end the same earnestness for the fulfillment of our hope, ¹² that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

²⁷ And as it is appointed for men once for all to die and after this comes judgment,

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, for which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God testifying to his gifts, and by it, though dead, he still speaks.

⁴⁰ In reference to us God had something better in view, that they without us should not reach perfection.

¹⁸ Of his own will he made us his children through the message of truth, so that we might be a sort of first fruits of his creatures.

²³ When he was reviled he did not revile back; he suffered, but made no threat; he committed himself to him who judges justly.

¹⁴ I said to him, "My Lord, you know." He said to me, "These have come out of the great distress and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵ For this reason they are before the throne of God and worship him day and night in his Temple, and he who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them. ¹⁶ They will not hunger any more nor thirst any more, nor will the sun strike on them nor any burning heat, ¹⁷ for the Lamb who is in the center before the throne will be their shepherd and will lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

⁸ All the inhabitants of the earth will worship him, all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the slain Iamb's Book of Life.

⁴ These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were ransomed from among men as first-fruits for God and the Lamb.

¹⁵ If any one was not found written in the Book of Life he was flung into the lake of fire.