2 Timothy 4:8

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

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

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

“I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

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

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

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

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

Jesus said, “I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.”

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

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

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

The four living creatures said, “Amen!” Then the elders fell down and worshiped.

And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.

“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—

Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May Yahweh the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”

They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

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

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.

the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.