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

He is a God greatly reverenced in the council of the holy ones. He is awesome above all those who are around Him?

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

Be on guard for yourselves and the flock that the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Feed the Congregation of God that he purchased with the blood of his own [Son].

He (God) put all things in subjection under his feet, and made him head over all things to the congregation,

The congregation is subject to Christ. Likewise let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake. I do my share in behalf of his body, the congregation, to provide what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ.

if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the congregation of God?

The firstborn

Say to Pharaoh: 'Thus says Jehovah, Israel is my son, my firstborn.

Consecrate (appoint) (sanctify) all the first-born males to me. Every first-born male Israelite and every first-born male animal belongs to me!

He should acknowledge the firstborn son of the unloved wife. And give him a double portion of all that he has. He is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

With weeping they will come. 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.

Using his own will, he gave us birth through the word of truth. This way we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

These are they who were not defiled with women. They are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed (bought) from among mankind. They are the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

Which

Will you forgive their sin? If not, please wipe me out of the book you have written.

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

Do not rejoice about this that the spirits are subject to you. 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 good news, together with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

All the citizens of earth will worship him, all whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life who was slain from the foundation of the world.

Whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled (thrust) (thrown) into the lake of fire.

The spirits

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Through this he was commended as righteous. God testified about his gifts. Thus through faith he still speaks even though he is dead.

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was. The spirit (life) will return to God who gave it.

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

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

We are of good courage, I say, and are willing 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, or am already made perfect. But I press on, that I may obtain that for which Christ Jesus also obtained.

Give thanks to the Father, who made us partakers of the inheritance of the holy ones in the light.

I said to him: Sir, you know. He said to me: These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

General references

Jehovah said to Moses: Register every firstborn male of the Israelites who is at least one month old, and make a list of their names.