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

God is greatly to be feared in the congregation of the saints, and to be adored by all around Him.

Praise Jehovah! I will praise Jehovah with all my heart, in the council of the upright, and of the congregation.

Therefore take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He has purchased with His own blood.

And He has put all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church,

Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

who now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and I fill up the things lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, on behalf of His body, which is the church;

(For if a man does not know to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

The firstborn

And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord: Israel is My son, My first-born.

Sanctify all the first-born to Me, whatever opens the womb among the sons of Israel, of man and of beast. It is Mine.

But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated as the first-born 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.

And I will make him My first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.

They shall come with weeping, and with prayers I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

Of His own will He brought us forth with the Word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruit of His creatures.

These 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 from among men, as a firstfruit to God and to the Lamb.

Which

And now will You forgive their sin! And if not, I pray You, blot me out of Your book which You have written.

Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life, and not be written with the righteous.

Yet do not rejoice in this, that the evil spirits are subject to you, rather rejoice because your names are written in Heaven.

And I also beg you, true yoke-fellow, help those women who labored in the gospel with me and with Clement, and others of my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

And all dwelling on the earth will worship it, those whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain, from the foundation of the world.

And if anyone was not found having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the Lake of Fire.

The spirits

By faith Abel offered to 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 speaks.

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall 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 shall fully know even as I also am fully known.

And according as we bore the image of the earthy man, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

then we are confident and we are pleased rather to go away from home out of the body, and to come home to the Lord.

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

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I also was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

giving thanks to the Father, who has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes, and have whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.

General references

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