53 Bible Verses about The Future

May the very God of peace completely sanctify you (make you holy). I pray to God that your entire spiritual being, your mind and body, is preserved blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

You do not lack spiritual gifts as you wait for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make apparent the counsels of the hearts. Then each man's praise will come from God.

Keep the commandment without spot and without reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Be prepared! The Son of man will come at a time when you do not expect it.

Now, my little children dwell (Greek: meno: stay, dwell, be present) with him. If he shall be made known we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming (presence) (being near).

He called ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds, and said do business with this until I return.

Look for the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of the great God. And look for our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Do not brag about tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring.

Jehovah of Hosts proclaims: The day is coming when all arrogant and evil people will burn like stubble. On that day they will burn up and there will be nothing left of them, either root or bough.

Jehovah knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to preserve the unrighteous for the Day of Judgment. (Psalm 34:19) (Matthew 25:46)

The smoke of their torment will ascend forever and ever. They who worship the beast and his image and receive the mark of his name have no rest day or night.

Whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled (thrust) (thrown) into the lake of fire.

These will go away into ever-burning fire (everlasting cutting off) (death) (total destruction) (doom) (punishment) (everlasting penalty), but the righteous to everlasting life.'

Christ will, through his power, bring everything under his authority. He will change our humble bodies and make them like his glorified (glorious) body (literally and figuratively: body of his glory). He is able to subject all things to himself.

The righteous will shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that has ears let him hear.

If children, then heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with him we may also be glorified with him.

After this I saw a great crowd that no man could number. It was from all nations, and tribes, and people, and tongues. It stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes. They had palm branches in their hands.

Moses and Elijah talked to him. They appeared in glory and spoke about the death he was about to experience at Jerusalem.

Since the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also took part of the same things, that through death he might destroy him that had the power to cause death, [Satan] the Devil.

God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.

I will ransom them from the power of the grave. I will redeem them from death! O death, where are your stings (plagues)? O grave, where is your destruction (devastation)? Compassion will be concealed from my eyes. (1 Co 15:54-57)

The appearance of our Savior Christ Jesus revealed this. Jesus abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the good news.

He will swallow up death forever! The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe away the tears from all faces. He will take away the disgrace of His people from the earth. Jehovah has spoken!

He commanded us to preach to the people. We testify that he was ordained by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.

I solemnly charge you in the sight (presence) of God, and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

Do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make apparent the counsels of the hearts. Then each man's praise will come from God.

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

The Father does not judge any man for he has given all judgment to the Son.

Jehovah knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to preserve the unrighteous for the Day of Judgment. (Psalm 34:19) (Matthew 25:46)

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these, saying: Behold, Jehovah came with many thousands of his holy ones. They execute judgment upon all. They convict all the ungodly of all their wicked behavior, deeds that they have committed in an irreverent way, and of all the hard things those detestable sinners have spoken against him.

This is love made perfect through us, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment. Just as he is, we are, amid (exposed to) this world.

I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. The books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged according to the things written in the books, according to their works.

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 it is good or bad.

to the general assembly and congregation of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just (righteous) (holy) men made perfect (mature) (having all needed qualities).

I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. The books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged according to the things written in the books, according to their works.

Therefore her plagues (literal and figurative) will overtake her in one day, death and mourning and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire, for mighty is Jehovah God who judges her. (Jeremiah 50:34; 51:58)

Surely you would not do that! Would you slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked? Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Men will say: Truly there is a reward for the righteous. Truly there is a God who judges the earth.

Now I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother [without cause] shall be guilty before the court. Whoever speaks to his brother with words of contempt shall receive condemnation before the Sanhedrin [Supreme Court]. Curse your brother and you will be guilty enough to be destroyed by fire, with the burning trash, at the Valley of Hinnom, outside of Jerusalem (Greek: Gehenna).

Do not fear those who kill the body. They are not able to take away your [everlasting] life. Instead, fear him who is able to destroy both life and body in the ever-burning fires. (Greek: Gehenna: continuously burning trash fires in the valley of Hinnom.)

If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away! It is better to lose a part of your body then to have your whole body destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom.

You serpents! You offspring of vipers! How will you escape from being destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom? (Greek: Gehenna, the trash fires in the valley just outside of Jerusalem)

The tongue is like fire, the place of iniquity among our members. It defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our life. It is set ablaze like the ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction).

After this I saw a great crowd that no man could number. It was from all nations, and tribes, and people, and tongues. It stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes. They had palm branches in their hands.

And I heard as it were the voice of a large number of people, and as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of mighty thunder, saying: Praise Jehovah! For Jehovah our God, the Almighty, reigns. (Psalm 106:48)

I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders. The number of them was ten thousand (myriads) times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.

You have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads (thousands of thousands) of angels,

You are Jehovah, even you only! You made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them. You keep them from destruction and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.

He replied: Today I tell you this. You will be with me in paradise.

If you want to serve me follow me! My servant will be where I am and the Father will honor my servant.

If I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and I will receive you to myself, for where I am you may also be.

Father, I desire that these whom you gave me may be with me where I am. I want them to see the glory you have given me. For you loved me before the creation of the world.

We are of good courage, I say, and are willing to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

As they praised God, they had favor with all the people. God added to the congregation daily those being saved.

Blessed are those who obey his commandments. They have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates of the city.

You have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled (defiled) their garments. They will walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

Be on the watch all the time. Pray for the strength to escape all these things in order to stand before the Son of man.

People will come from east, west, north and south and sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God.

Then he will tell those on his left: 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the ever-burning fire that is prepared for the Devil and his [fallen] angels.

Now I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother [without cause] shall be guilty before the court. Whoever speaks to his brother with words of contempt shall receive condemnation before the Sanhedrin [Supreme Court]. Curse your brother and you will be guilty enough to be destroyed by fire, with the burning trash, at the Valley of Hinnom, outside of Jerusalem (Greek: Gehenna).

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It would be better to enter into life maimed then, having two hands to be destroyed in the ever-burning trash fires in the Valley of Hinnom. (Greek: Gehenna)

The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all who stumble others and commit lawlessness. The angels will cast them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is good for you to enter into life with only one foot, rather than having two feet to be cast into the ever-burning fires of Hinnom. (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction)

Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his outer garment, that he does not walk naked and they see his shame.

No one knows the day and the hour (the period of time). The angels of heaven do not know. The Son does not know. Only the Father knows!

You be ready! The Son of man will come at a time when you do not think he will.

For you know perfectly that the Day of Jehovah will come like a thief in the night. (Zephaniah 1:14)

Remember what you received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If you do not stay awake, I will come to you like a thief. You will not know the hour when I will come to you.

He who testifies to these things says: I come quickly. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who obeys the words of the prophecy of this book.

I come quickly: hold fast what you have so that no one will take your crown.

Let your gentleness (mildness) (moderation) be known to all men for the Lord is near.

In just a little while, he who is coming will come. He will not delay!

If children, then heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with him we may also be glorified with him.

You shared the sufferings of prisoners. When all your belongings were seized, you endured your loss gladly. This is because you knew that you possessed something much better, which would last forever.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I also saw the people who were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image. They had not received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands. They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

If we endure, we will also reign with Him. If we deny him, He will deny us!

He considered the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. He looked intently (respectfully) for the payment of the reward.

You who are afflicted rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire.

He will enter into peace. The honorable and honest will rest in his bed.

Then I heard a voice from heaven say: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in union with the Lord from this time forward: Yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works follow them.

There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

There remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

You who are afflicted rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire.

He will enter into peace. The honorable and honest will rest in his bed.

Then I heard a voice from heaven say: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in union with the Lord from this time forward: Yes, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works follow them.

There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

There remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

Our light affliction is for the moment. It works more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory for us.

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us.

I exhort the elders among you. I too am an older man and a witness of the sufferings of Christ. I am also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward you give me honor (glory).

Have the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know the hope of his calling, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the holy ones,

He who did not know and did things unacceptable will receive a lesser punishment. To whom much is given, much will be required and to whom they commit much they will demand even more.

When someone will not listen to you leave that house and shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony to the householder.

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

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world. People loved the darkness rather than the light for their works were evil.

I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the Day of Judgment than for you.

Jehovah of Hosts proclaims: The day is coming when all arrogant and evil people will burn like stubble. On that day they will burn up and there will be nothing left of them, either root or bough.

His winnowing shovel is in his hand. He will clean his threshing floor and gather his wheat into a barn. He will then burn the husks in a fire that cannot be put out.

He who puts active faith in the Son has everlasting life. He who disobeys* the Son will not see life for the wrath of God remains upon him. (*Greek: apeitheo: willfully disobey, not having faith)

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Which of these men should assume this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.

The Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels. He will then reward each man according to his deeds.

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these, saying: Behold, Jehovah came with many thousands of his holy ones. They execute judgment upon all. They convict all the ungodly of all their wicked behavior, deeds that they have committed in an irreverent way, and of all the hard things those detestable sinners have spoken against him.

I solemnly charge you in the sight (presence) of God, and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

Do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make apparent the counsels of the hearts. Then each man's praise will come from God.

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

They said: You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was received up from you into heaven will come in a similar manner as you saw him go into heaven.

So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. He will appear the second time without sin to those who look to him for their salvation.

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

The day of Jehovah will come as a thief. The heavens will pass away with a great noise. The elements shall be dissolved with intense heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up (destroyed). (Joel 2:31) (Zephaniah 1:14)

Jesus said: I am and you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.

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

The sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of earth will mourn. They will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Behold, he comes with the clouds. Every eye will see him, and those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn over him. So it will be, Amen.

You who are afflicted rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire. They will render vengeance to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the good news of our Lord Jesus.

Men will faint out of fear for expectation of the things coming on the world. The powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

For the Lord will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ will rise first.

When Christ, who is our life, will be made known, then you will also be made known with him in glory.

May he resolutely strengthen your hearts without blame in holiness before God, our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.

Do not fear those who kill the body. They are not able to take away your [everlasting] life. Instead, fear him who is able to destroy both life and body in the ever-burning fires. (Greek: Gehenna: continuously burning trash fires in the valley of Hinnom.)

Do not wonder about this for the hour is coming when everyone in the grave will hear his voice. They will return. Those who did good will have the resurrection of life. Those who did evil will receive the resurrection of judgment.

You serpents! You offspring of vipers! How will you escape from being destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom? (Greek: Gehenna, the trash fires in the valley just outside of Jerusalem)

He will punish him severely, and send him to be with the hypocrites. There they will cry and grind their teeth.

I will say to them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you workers of evil.'

but the sons of the kingdom will be cast forth into the outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The king gave orders for that person to be tied hand and foot and thrown outside into the dark. That is where people will cry and grind their teeth in pain.

These will go away into ever-burning fire (everlasting cutting off) (death) (total destruction) (doom) (punishment) (everlasting penalty), but the righteous to everlasting life.'

This is because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You heard about this hope from the word of truth, the good news.

We know that if our earthly house (human body) (habitation of life) is destroyed; we have a building from God. It is an everlasting house in the heavens, not made with human hands.

He looked for the city having real foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

After this I saw a great crowd that no man could number. It was from all nations, and tribes, and people, and tongues. It stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes. They had palm branches in their hands.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. There was no more sea.

[There will be] glory, honor and peace to every one who does good works, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

Now he who plants and he who waters are one [in purpose] and every man will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

You know that whatever good thing each person does, the same shall he receive again from God, whether he be slave or free.

You know that God will give you the reward of the inheritance when you serve the Master, Christ.

Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The devil (false accuser) (Devil) is about to throw you into prison, that you may be tested. You will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful even if you must die, and I will give you the crown of life.

When the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.

Love your enemies and do good to them. Lend expecting nothing in return and your reward will be great. You will be sons of the Most High for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for life eternal. Both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

However, our citizenship is in heaven. We also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ will, through his power, bring everything under his authority. He will change our humble bodies and make them like his glorified (glorious) body (literally and figuratively: body of his glory). He is able to subject all things to himself.

Every man taking part in the contest is temperate in all things. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we do it to receive an incorruptible crown.

Blessed are those who obey his commandments. They have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates of the city.

The twenty-four elders fall down before the one seated on the throne. They worship him who lives forever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:

I come quickly: hold fast what you have so that no one will take your crown.

God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.

God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.

God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.

God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. There was no more sea.

There will be no curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city. His servants will serve him.

There will be no night there. They need no lamp, neither light of the sun, for Jehovah God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.

The crown of righteousness is laid up for me. The Lord, the righteous judge, will give it to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing (manifestation).

His lord said: 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You were faithful over a few things. I will appoint you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'

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

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. He said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.

Accumulate wealth in heaven where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

Those who have wisdom (insight) will shine like the brightness of the firmament. They turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

When the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.

God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to captivity in pits of darkness reserved for judgment!

The man who endures under trial is blessed. For when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

Do not rejoice about this that the spirits are subject to you. Rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.

Those servants are blessed, for the master will find them alert when he comes. I tell you he will tighten his belt, have them sit down at the table, and he will serve them the meal.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be. We know that when he is revealed we will be like him. We will see him just as he is.

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

If I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and I will receive you to myself, for where I am you may also be.

Do not brag about tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring.