20 Bible Verses about The Future

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely; and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you eagerly wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts. Then every man will receive his praise from God.

to keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

So he called ten of his servants, gave them ten minas, and said to them, 'Do business till I come.'

looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

And the smoke of their torment goes up for ever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name."

And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

and if children, then heirsheirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, in order that we may also be glorified with him.

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;

And behold, two men talked with him, Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away."

but has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts. Then every man will receive his praise from God.

All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

In this love is perfected among us, that we may have confidence for the Day of Judgment, because as he is so are we in this world.

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.

Therefore in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.

But I say to you that anyone who is angry with his brother shall be subject to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, 'Raca,' shall be answerable to the council. But whoever says, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of hell.

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

You serpents! You brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

And the tongue is a fire, a world of evil among the members of the body. The tongue corrupts our whole person, sets the whole course of our life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;

Then I heard what sounded like the voice of a great multitude, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.

Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the joyful assembly

It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour,

If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, him my Father will honor.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me may be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

We are confident, I say, and would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city.

Yet you have a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

Watch at all times, and pray always that you may have strength to escape all these things that will take place, and to stand before the Son of Man."

And men will come from east and west, and from north and south, and sit at table in the kingdom of God.

"Then he will say to those on his left hand, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels:

But I say to you that anyone who is angry with his brother shall be subject to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, 'Raca,' shall be answerable to the council. But whoever says, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of hell.

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, to the fire that shall never be quenched.

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil, and will throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.

("Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed.")

"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Remember therefore what you have received and heard; keep it, and repent. But if you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you.

He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

"And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book."

I am coming soon; hold fast to what you have, so that no one may take your crown.

Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near.

"For yet in a very little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.

and if children, then heirsheirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, in order that we may also be glorified with him.

For you had compassion on the prisoners, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was given. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony to Jesus and because of the word of God, and who had not worshipped the beast or his image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;

He considered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them."

So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God;

and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them."

So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God;

For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison,

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us.

So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ and a partaker in the glory that is to be revealed,

I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

But he who did not know, and committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask the more.

And if any place will not receive you and they refuse to hear you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet for a testimony against them."

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."

He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside, to go to his own place."

For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each man according to what he has done.

It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts. Then every man will receive his praise from God.

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

They also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched him go into heaven."

so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation to those who are eagerly waiting for him.

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with fire, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

And Jesus said, "I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."

For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all tribes of the earth will mourn because of him. Even so. Amen.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

men fainting from fear and foreboding of what is coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

so that he may establish your hearts without blame in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come forth those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

You serpents! You brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

and he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers!'

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into the outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

for he was looking forward to the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.

knowing that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful even until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For he is kind to the ungrateful and evil.

And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

But our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city.

the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever; they cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

I am coming soon; hold fast to what you have, so that no one may take your crown.

he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away."

he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away."

he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away."

he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away."

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.

And there will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light; and they will reign for ever and ever.

In the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved his appearing.

His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your master.'

And whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he shall not lose his reward."

But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, for when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."

Blessed are those servants whom the master finds watching when he comes. Truly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and will come and serve them.

Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.