First Heaven

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. — read the full passage →

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

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, — read the full passage →

And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. — read the full passage →

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

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.

Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations!

And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. — read the full passage →

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is becomethe kingdomof our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever.

but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →

who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things.

In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.

After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

And no one hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended out of heaven, even the Son of man, who is in heaven.

And Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way; and his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.

I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, — read the full passage →

And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof is the Lamb. — read the full passage →

and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.

And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and betheir God:

And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. — read the full passage →

And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.

and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. — read the full passage →

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angelsgoing forthto war with the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels; — read the full passage →

and madest them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon the earth.

And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, isthe Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come. — read the full passage →

After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, a voiceas of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass hereafter. — read the full passage →

He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.

Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they that pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, — read the full passage →

but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,

for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.

then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand, — read the full passage →

For David ascended not into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me.

He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.

And they shall come from the east and west, and from the north and south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in his own glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they?

for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden? — read the full passage →

And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance; — read the full passage →

For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:

Now in the things which we are saying the chief pointis this: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more. — read the full passage →

When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him;

But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

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

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

how that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord’s death till he come.

but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, Andwhichentered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.

For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:—

And after the uproar ceased, Paul having sent for the disciples and exhorted them, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. — read the full passage →

Brethren, I may say unto you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us unto this day.

The soldiers therefore came, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him:

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. — read the full passage →

These things spake he: and after this he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. — read the full passage →

the same came unto him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that thou doest, except God be with him.

And he said, Jesus, remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom.

And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us.

And he said also unto the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he was wasting his goods. — read the full passage →

And Jesus himself, when he beganto teach, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli, — read the full passage →

Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men in whom he is well pleased.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,