38 Bible Verses about Eternal Perspective
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I am undecided between the two, for I long to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, far better,
and to an imperishable, unsullied, and unfading inheritance, which is kept safe for you in heaven,
Fix your thoughts on the things that are above, not on those that are on earth.
Now, dear children, keep in union with him, so that if he appears, we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame when he comes.
And he called in ten of his slaves and gave them each twenty dollars and told them to trade with it while he was gone.
May God himself, the giver of peace, consecrate you through and through. Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept sound, and be found irreproachable when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.
while we wait for the fulfilment of our blessed hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus.
to keep his command stainless and irreproachable until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and there is no gift that you lack even while you are waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to reappear,
So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer has to wait for the precious crop from the ground, and be patient with it, until it gets the early and the late rains.
Therefore you must be ready too, for the Son of Man is coming at a time when you do not expect him.
"Who then will be the faithful, thoughtful slave whom his master put in charge of his household, to give the members of it their supplies at the proper time? Blessed is that slave if his master when he returns finds him doing it. I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his property.read more.
But if he is a bad slave and says to himself, 'My master is going to stay a long time,' and begins to beat the other slaves, and eats and drinks with drunkards, that slave's master will come back some day when he does not expect him, and at some time of which he does not know and will cut him in two, and put him with the hypocrites, to weep and gnash his teeth.
Therefore, prepare your minds for action, and with perfect calmness fix your hopes on the mercy that you are to experience when Jesus Christ is revealed. Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant, but like the holy Being who has called you, you must also prove holy in all your conduct,
If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what holy and pious lives you ought to lead, while you await and hasten the coming of the Day of God, which will cause the heavens to burn up and dissolve and the heavenly bodies to blaze and melt.
and there is no gift that you lack even while you are waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to reappear, and at the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ he will insure your complete vindication. God can be depended on, and it was he who called you to this fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
May the Lord guide your hearts into a sense of God's love and into a steadfastness like Christ's.
Enter the great contest of faith! Take hold of eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the great profession of faith. Before God who maintains all life, and before Christ Jesus who in testifying before Pontius Pilate made his great profession, I charge you to keep his command stainless and irreproachable until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ,
So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer has to wait for the precious crop from the ground, and be patient with it, until it gets the early and the late rains. You must have patience too; you must keep up your courage, for the coming of the Lord is close at hand.
So you must be on the watch, for you do not know on what day your Master is coming. But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you must be ready too, for the Son of Man is coming at a time when you do not expect him.
You must look out and be on the alert, for you do not know when it will be time; just as a man when he leaves home to go on a journey, and puts his slaves in charge, each with his duties, gives orders to the watchman to keep watch. So you must be on the watch, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming??n the evening or at midnight or toward daybreak or early in the morning??36 for fear he should come unexpectedly and find you asleep.read more.
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You must be ready with your lamps burning, like men waiting for their master to come home from a wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once. Blessed are the slaves whom their master will find on the watch when he comes. I tell you, he will gird up his robe and make them take their places at table, and go around and wait on them.read more.
Whether he comes late at night or early in the morning and finds them on the watch, they are blessed. But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into. You must be ready too, for the Son of Man is coming at a time when you do not expect him."
But you are not in darkness, brothers, so that that Day should surprise you like thieves. You all belong to the light and the day. We have nothing to do with night or with darkness. So we must not sleep like other men, but we must be vigilant and composed.
(See, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who keeps awake, and keeps hold of his clothes, so that he will not have to go naked and be put to shame!)
But he who holds out to the end will be saved. And this good news of the kingdom will be preached all over the world, to testify to all the heathen, and then the end will come.
while we wait for the fulfilment of our blessed hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus. He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.
All this especially, because you know this critical time and that it is time for you to wake from your sleep, for our salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day is at hand. So let us throw aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light.
You must have patience too; you must keep up your courage, for the coming of the Lord is close at hand. Do not complain of one another, brothers, or you will be judged. The judge is standing right at the door!
But the end of all things is near. Be serious and collected, therefore, and pray.
But the commonwealth to which we belong is in heaven, and from it we are eagerly awaiting the coming of a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
For God's mercy has appeared and brought salvation to all men, training us to renounce godless ways and worldly passions, and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world, while we wait for the fulfilment of our blessed hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus.
More than that, we ourselves, though we have in the Spirit a foretaste of the future, groan to ourselves as we wait to be declared God's sons, through the redemption of our bodies. It was in this hope that we were saved. But a hope that can be seen is not a hope, for who hopes for what he sees? But when we hope for something that we do not see, we wait persistently for it.
We do not want you to be under any misapprehension, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not grieve for them, as others do who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then by means of Jesus God will bring back with him those who have fallen asleep. For we can assure you, on the Lord's own authority, that those of us who will still be living when the Lord comes will have no advantage over those who have fallen asleep.
Now the crown of uprightness awaits me, which the Lord, the upright judge, will award me on that Day, and not only me but also all who have loved and hoped for his appearing.
while you await and hasten the coming of the Day of God, which will cause the heavens to burn up and dissolve and the heavenly bodies to blaze and melt.
He who testifies to all this says, "It is true! I am coming very soon!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!
