They have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.

Thou leadest me with thy counsel, and afterward receivest me unto glory.

The way of life leadeth unto heaven; that a man should beware of hell beneath.

"See that ye gather not treasure together upon the earth, where rust and moths corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

And Jesus said unto him, "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give it to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me."

So is it with him that gathered riches, and is not rich in God."

and thou shalt be happy: For they cannot recompense thee. But thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just men."

while we look not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen. For things which are seen, are temporal: but things which are not seen are eternal.

We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven:

and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly things through Christ Jesus.

for the hope's sake which is laid up in store for you in heaven, of which hope ye have heard before by the true word of the gospel,

If ye be then risen again with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the righthand of God.

For ye suffered also with my bonds, and took in worth the spoiling of your goods, and that with gladness, knowing in yourselves how that ye had in heaven a better, and an enduring substance.

Blessed be God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which through his abundant mercy begat us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from death,

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In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah. We have a strong city; Salvation shall God appoint instead of walls and bulwarks.

But Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is the mother of us all.

Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners: but citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

But ye are come unto the mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the celestial Jerusalem: and to an innumerable sight of angels,

And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and a high mountain, and he showed me the great city, holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

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which also said, "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, even as ye have seen him go into heaven."

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and the voice of the archangel, and trump of God. And the dead in Christ shall arise first:

and to you which are troubled, rest with us; when the Lord Jesus shall show himself from heaven, with his mighty angels,

Behold, he cometh with clouds, and all eyes shall see him: and they also which pierced him. And all kindreds of the earth shall wail. Even so, amen.

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that ye might accept things most excellent, that ye might be pure and such as should hurt no man's conscience, until the day of Christ;

so that ye are behind in no gift, and wait for the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ

and for to look for his son from heaven, whom he raised from death: I mean Jesus, which delivereth us from wrath to come.

From henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord that is a righteous judge shall give me at that day: not to me only: but unto all them that love his coming.

looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the mighty God, and of our saviour Jesus Christ:

even so Christ was once offered to take away the sins of many, and unto them that look for him, shall he appear again, without sin, unto their salvation.

looking for, and hasting unto, the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens shall perish with fire, and the elements shall be consumed with heat.

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and we will be like all other nations. And our king shall judge us, and go out before us and fight our battles."

For here have we no continuing city: but we seek a one to come.