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 very terrible, In the secret counsel of His holy ones, And fearful over all surrounding Him.

Praise ye Jah! I thank Jehovah with the whole heart, In the secret meeting of the upright, And of the company.

'Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything.

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

(and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

The firstborn

and thou hast said unto Pharaoh, Thus said Jehovah, My son, My first-born is Israel,

Sanctify to Me every first-born, opening any womb among the sons of Israel, among man and among beast; it is Mine.'

But the first-born, son of the hated one, he doth acknowledge, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he is the beginning of his strength; to him is the right of the first-born.

I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth.

With weeping they come in, And with supplications I bring them, I cause them to go unto streams of waters, In a right way -- they stumble not in it, For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim -- My first-born is he.

having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

these are they who with women were not defiled, for they are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men -- a first-fruit to God and to the Lamb --

Which

and now, if Thou takest away their sin -- and if not -- blot me, I pray thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.'

They are blotted out of the book of life, And with the righteous are not written.

but, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice rather that your names were written in the heavens.'

and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;

and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.

The spirits

by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.

we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

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

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,

and I have said to him, 'Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, 'These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;

General references

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Number every first-born male of the sons of Israel from a son of a month and upward, and take up the number of their names;