Philippians 1:23

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.

After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

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.

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.

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

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

He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.” ’ ”

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

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

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

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

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits.

David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love.

Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!

He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

Peter answered Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let’s make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;

But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

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 those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”