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 very awesome in the council of the holy ones, and to be feared above all those who are round about him?

Praise ye LORD. I will give thanks to LORD with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit placed you guardians, to tend the church of the Lord and God, which he purchased by his own blood.

And he subordinated all things under his feet, and appointed him head over all things for the church,

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

I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and make complete in my flesh things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ for his body, which is the church.

(but if any man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of a congregation of God?),

The firstborn

And thou shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says LORD, Israel is my son, my first-born,

Sanctify to me all the first-born, whatever opens the womb among the sons of Israel. Both of man and of beast, it is mine.

But he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the one regarded inferior, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the first-born is his.

I also will make him first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth.

They shall come with weeping. And I will lead them with supplications. 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.

Having deliberated, he begot us by the word of truth for us to be a certain first fruit of his creatures.

These are men who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were out of men purchased by Jesus, a first fruit to God and to the Lamb.

Which

Yet now, if thou will forgive their sin--, and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou have written.

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are made subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in the heavens.

Yes, I ask thee also, genuine yokefellow, help them--the women who labored with me in the good-news--with Clement also, and the rest of my co-workmen whose names are in the book of life.

And all who dwell upon the earth will worship it, whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb who was killed from the foundation of the world.

And if any man was found not 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, because of which he was reported to be righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through it, he who died still speaks.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

For now we see by polished metal, in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know just as also I was known.

And just as we have worn the form of the earthly, we will also wear the form of the heavenly.

And we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be at home near the Lord.

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

Not that I have already obtained or have already been fully perfected, but I press forward, if also I might seize upon that for which also I was seized by Christ Jesus.

Giving thanks to the Father who made us qualified for the share of the portion of the sanctified in light.

And I said to him, My lord, thou know. And he said to me, These are those coming out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

General references

And LORD said to Moses, Number all the first-born males of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.