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 he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
• Luke 10:20Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
• Heb 11:40God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
• Rev 20:15If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
• Gen 18:25Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
• Rev 14:4These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
• Exod 4:22You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
• Ps 94:2Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
• Rev 7:14–17I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
• Heb 9:27Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
• 2 Th 1:5–7This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.
• Heb 6:10–12For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• Ps 96:13before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.
• Ps 98:9Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
• Acts 20:28Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
• Phil 4:3Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
• Heb 11:4By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
• Eph 1:22He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
• John 5:27He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
• Matt 25:31–34“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
• 1 Tim 3:5(but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)
• 1 Pet 2:23Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
• Rev 13:8All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
• Phil 1:21–23For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
• Col 1:12giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
• Eccl 12:7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• Ps 69:28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
• Deut 21:17but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
• Eph 5:24–27But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
• Ps 89:7a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
• Jer 31:9They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
• Ps 50:5–6“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
• 1 Cor 15:54But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
• Exod 13:2“Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine.”
• Ps 89:27I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
• Ps 111:1Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.
• 2 Cor 5:8We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
• Col 1:24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;
• 1 Cor 13:12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
• Phil 3:12–21Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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