The Mighty God is greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and to be held in reverence by all those around Him.

Praise YAH! I will praise Jehovah with my whole heart, in the council of the upright and in the congregation.

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,

Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the Word,

I now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, on behalf of His body, which is the church,

(for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);

And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says Jehovah: Israel is My son, My firstborn.

Consecrate unto Me every firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and beast; it is Mine.

But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated wife as the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

And I will make him My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

They shall come with weeping, and with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

Of His own purpose He brought us forth by the Word of Truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He leads. These were redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

Yet now, if You will, take away their sin; and if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.

Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life, and not be written with the righteous.

Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in Heaven.

And I urge you also, true yoke-fellow, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

And all who dwell on the earth will do homage to him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire.

For God is not unjust, to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

that you do not become slothful, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

And as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this the judgment,

Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Gather My saints to Me, and those who make a covenant with Me by sacrifice.

Let the heavens declare His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah.

Be exalted, O Judge of the earth; restore recompense to the proud.

For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with His truth.

for He is coming to judge the earth. With righteousness He shall judge the world, and the peoples with equity.

When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.

And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.

and has also given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer;

and to give you who are afflicted rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from Heaven with His mighty angels,

who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but gave Himself over to Him who judges righteously;

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.

God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made complete apart from us.

then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

For now we see through a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall fully know just as I also am fully known.

And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the Man of Heaven.

So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory.

We are confident, yes, preferring rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

For I am hard pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold, since Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.

For many conduct themselves, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ:

For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

giving thanks to the Father who has made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

And I said to him, Sir, you know. So he said to me, These are the ones coming out of great affliction, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not fall on them, nor any burning heat;