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

James 1:18

Revelation 14:4

Which

The spirits

Bible References

The general

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the holy Spirit hath appointed you bishops, to feed the church of God, which He purchased with his own blood.

and hath put all things under his feet, and given Him to be head over all things to the church;

As the church then is subject to Christ, so also should wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for the sake of his body, which is the church.

(for if any one know not how to govern his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

The firstborn

who hath of his own will begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.

These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins: these are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth: these were redeemed from among men, as the first-fruits unto God and the Lamb.

Which

However rejoice not in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice that your names are written in heaven.

And I entreat thee likewise, my faithful collegue, to assist them, for they laboured with me in the gospel, and Clement also, and my other fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

So that all who dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire.

The spirits

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God bearing witness to his gifts: and by it, though dead, he yet speaketh.

For we see now as through a mirror obscurely: but then we shall see face to face. Now I know but in part, but then I shall know even as I am known.

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

and well-pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain: and if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor:

not that I have yet won the prize, or am already perfect: but I press forward to acquire that perfection, for which also I have been apprehended by Christ Jesus.

giving thanks unto the Father, who hath made us meet for a portion of the inheritance of the saints in light:

And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they who come out of great affliction, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.