Hebrews 12:23

You have come to the joyful assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, and to the perfected spirits of the righteous. Believers join the whole company of the redeemed before God.

Cross-references · 40

• Jas 1:18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
• Luke 10:20Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
• Heb 11:40God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
• Rev 20:15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
• Gen 18:25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
• Rev 14:4These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
• Exod 4:22And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
• Ps 94:2Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
• Rev 7:14–17And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
• Heb 9:27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
• 2 Th 1:5–7Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
• Heb 6:10–12For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
• Ps 96:13Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
• Ps 98:9Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
• Acts 20:28Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
• Phil 4:3And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
• Heb 11:4By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
• Eph 1:22And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
• John 5:27And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
• Matt 25:31–34When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
• 1 Tim 3:5(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
• 1 Pet 2:23Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
• Rev 13:8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
• Phil 1:21–23For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
• Col 1:12Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
• Eccl 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
• Ps 69:28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
• Deut 21:17But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
• Eph 5:24–27Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
• Ps 89:7God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
• Jer 31:9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
• Ps 50:5–6Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
• 1 Cor 15:54So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
• Exod 13:2Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
• Ps 89:27Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
• Ps 111:1Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.
• 2 Cor 5:8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
• Col 1:24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
• 1 Cor 13:12For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
• Phil 3:12–21Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

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