Luke 20:35

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

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.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

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

A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

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.

Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’

Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.

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

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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

and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

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

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

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.

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

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

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.”

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

What I tell you, I tell all: Watch.”

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

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

far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

Pray without ceasing.

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.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”

Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, for every man was against his son and against his brother, that he may give you a blessing today.”

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.

It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.

“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy.

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

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,

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

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,

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy for you to do this for him,

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.