And it happened, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and was carried up into heaven.

And it came to pass, when the Lord was about to take Elijah with a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah and Elisha went out of Gilgal.

And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came to Elisha, and said to him, Do you know that the Lord this day is going to take away your master from over you? And he said, Yes, I know [it]; be silent.

So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

What then if you should see the Son of Man ascending where He was before?

Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

"But now I am going to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, 'Where are You going?'

I came forth from the Father and I have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and I am going to the Father."

And I am no longer in the world, yet these are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those which You have given Me, that they may be one just as We [are].

until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen,

Now after He said these things, while they were beholding [Him], He was lifted up, and a cloud withdrew Him from their sight.

which He worked in Christ, having raised Him from the dead, and seated [Him] at His right hand in the heavenlies,

Therefore He says: "When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men."

He that descended, He is also the [One] who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.

And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among [the] Gentiles, believed on in the world, [and] was received up in glory.

where the Forerunner has entered in behalf of us, [even] Jesus, having become a High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

looking unto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured [the] cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

who having gone into heaven, is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers being subjected to Him.

But I have a baptism to be baptized [with], and how distressed I am till it is completed!

and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens my ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute.

but the Lord God became my helper; therefore I was not ashamed, but I set my face as a solid rock; and I know that I shall never be ashamed,

Behold, the Lord, the Lord will help me; who will hurt me? Behold, all you shall grow as old as a garment, and a moth shall devour you.

And now behold, I, having been bound in the spirit, am going to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there,

But I count myself as nothing; nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, so that I may complete my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear solemn testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

And coming to us and taking Paul's belt, and binding his feet and hands, he said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, ' The man whose belt this is, the Jews will bind in this way in Jerusalem, and they will deliver [him] into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, in behalf of the name of the Lord Jesus."

I press toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, you also arm yourselves [with] the same mind, because he who suffered in [the] flesh has ceased from sin,