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

The firstborn

James 1:18

Revelation 14:4

Which

The spirits

Revelation 7:14

Bible References

The general

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.

He has put everything under his feet and made him the indisputable head of the church,

Just as the church is in subjection to Christ, so married women must be, in everything, to their husbands.

At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.

The firstborn

Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

They are the men who have not been defiled by relations with women; they are celibates. It is they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been ransomed from among men as the first-fruits for God and the Lamb,

Which

But do not be glad that the spirits submit to you, but be glad that your names are enrolled in heaven."

And I beg you, my true comrade, help them, for they toiled at my side in spreading the good news, with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

All the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not from the foundation of the world been written in the slain Lamb's book of life, will worship it.

Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was flung into the fiery lake.

The spirits

Faith made Abel's sacrifice greater in the sight of God than Cain's; through faith he gained God's approval as an upright man, for God himself approved his offering, and through faith even when he was dead he still spoke.

For now we are looking at a dim reflection in a mirror, but then we shall see face to face. Now my knowledge is imperfect, but then I shall know as fully as God knows me.

and as we have been like the man of the earth, let us also try to be like the man from heaven.

For, as I see it, living means Christ and dying something even better.

Not that I have secured it yet, or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, because I have been captured by Jesus Christ.

and you will thank the Father who has entitled you to share the lot of God's people in the realm of light.

I said to him, "You know, my lord." He said to me, "They are the people who come through the great persecution, who have washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb.