Hebrews 12:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

The general

1 Timothy 3:5

The firstborn

Revelation 14:4

Which

The spirits

General references

Numbers 3:40

Bible References

The general

A God greatly feared in the council of the holy ones,
And awesome above all those who are around Him?

Praise the Lord!

I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart,
In the company of the upright and in the assembly.

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church,

But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions.

(but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),

The firstborn

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is My son, My firstborn.

“Sanctify to Me every firstborn, the first offspring of every womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and beast; it belongs to Me.”

But he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; to him belongs the right of the firstborn.

“I also shall make him My firstborn,
The highest of the kings of the earth.

“With weeping they will come,
And by supplication I will lead them;
I will make them walk by streams of waters,
On a straight path in which they will not stumble;
For I am a father to Israel,
And Ephraim is My firstborn.”

In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.

These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

Which

But now, if You will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out from Your book which You have written!”

May they be blotted out of the book of life
And may they not be

recorded with the righteous.

Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.”

Indeed, true companion, I ask you also to help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

All 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 slain.

And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

The spirits

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the

spirit will return to God who gave it.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.

Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.

I said to him, “My lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

General references

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward, and make a list of their names.