Ephesians 5:23

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride.”

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’ ” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

But now they are many members, but one body.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations, people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

Praise Yahweh! Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, making all foods clean?”

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,