Paradise

and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'

He who is having an ear--let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming--I will give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.

`And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, — read the full passage →

For Jehovah hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her wastes, And He setteth her wilderness as Eden, And her desert as a garden of Jehovah, Joy, yea, gladness is found in her, Confession, and the voice of song.

And Jehovah God planteth a garden in Eden, at the east, and He setteth there the man whom He hath formed; — read the full passage →

but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him--'

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more; — read the full passage →

I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago--whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known--such an one being caught away unto the third heaven; — read the full passage →

In Eden, the garden of God, thou hast been, Every precious stone thy covering, Ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold, The workmanship of thy tabrets, and of thy pipes, In thee in the day of thy being produced, have been prepared.

and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more; — read the full passage →

And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb: — read the full passage →

And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb: — read the full passage →

And the humble do possess the land, And they have delighted themselves In the abundance of peace.

that he was caught away to the paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, that it is not possible for man to speak.

in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you; — read the full passage →

Cedars have not hid him in the garden of God, Firs have not been like unto his boughs, And chesnut-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of God hath been like unto him in his beauty, — read the full passage →

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more;

having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

`Happy the meek--because they shall inherit the land.

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy; — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God planteth a garden in Eden, at the east, and He setteth there the man whom He hath formed; — read the full passage →

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For, lo, I am creating new heavens, and a new earth, And the former things are not remembered, Nor do they ascend on the heart.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago--whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known--such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;

In Eden, the garden of God, thou hast been, Every precious stone thy covering, Ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold, The workmanship of thy tabrets, and of thy pipes, In thee in the day of thy being produced, have been prepared. — read the full passage →

and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

And I saw a great white throne, and Him who is sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven did flee away, and place was not found for them; — read the full passage →

A Prayer of David. Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, Answer me, for I <FI>am<Fi> poor and needy. — read the full passage →

and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were judged, each one according to their works; — read the full passage →

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;

And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

and he said to Jesus, `Remember me, lord, when thou mayest come in thy reign;' — read the full passage →

The righteous possess the land, And they dwell for ever on it.

and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire--this <FI>is<Fi> the second death;

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him; — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

`Happy the poor in spirit--because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys <FI>is<Fi> with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!

and the Devil, who is leading them astray, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where <FI>are<Fi> the beast and the false prophet, and they shall be tormented day and night--to the ages of the ages.

but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.

Who <FI>is<Fi> the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but--those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.

and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast--the two--to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone;

And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours--and their works do follow them!'

and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were judged, each one according to their works;

wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

and he commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him;

whom it behoveth heaven, indeed, to receive till times of a restitution of all things, of which God spake through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the age.

And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods; — read the full passage →

And they have said: This land, that was desolated, Hath been as the garden of Eden, And the cities--the wasted, And the desolated, and the broken down, Fenced places have remained.

For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuseth to comfort himself, and saith, `For--I go down mourning unto my son, to Sheol,' and his father weepeth for him.

And Jehovah God planteth a garden in Eden, at the east, and He setteth there the man whom He hath formed;

`Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;

and any curse there shall not be any more, and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him,

And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you, — read the full passage →

and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.

`And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham--and the rich man also died, and was buried; — read the full passage →

In Eden, the garden of God, thou hast been, Every precious stone thy covering, Ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold, The workmanship of thy tabrets, and of thy pipes, In thee in the day of thy being produced, have been prepared. — read the full passage →

Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are unstopped, — read the full passage →

Thy shoots a paradise of pomegranates, With precious fruits,

yea, he casteth out the man, and causeth to dwell at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubs and the flame of the sword which is turning itself round to guard the way of the tree of life.

Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken; — read the full passage →

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--

and I have known such a man--whether in the body, whether out of the body, I have not known, God hath known, -- — read the full passage →

because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;

For, lo, I am creating new heavens, and a new earth, And the former things are not remembered, Nor do they ascend on the heart. — read the full passage →

For Thy kindness <FI>is<Fi> great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

Before it consumed hath fire, And after it burn doth a flame, As the garden of Eden <FI>is<Fi> the land before it, And after it a wilderness--a desolation! And also an escape there hath not been to it,

to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,

Drought--also heat--consume snow-waters, Sheol <FI>those who<Fi> have sinned.

Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.

And Jehovah God formeth the man--dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

`Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city; — read the full passage →

and he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and did shew to me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, — read the full passage →

He who is overcoming--I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and without he may not go any more, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, that doth come down out of the heaven from my God--also my new name.

because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,

for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God; — read the full passage →

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

and it came to pass, in his blessing them, he was parted from them, and was borne up to the heaven;

and he said to Jesus, `Remember me, lord, when thou mayest come in thy reign;'

And having risen, the whole multitude of them did lead him to Pilate, — read the full passage →

`And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham--and the rich man also died, and was buried; — read the full passage →

rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward <FI>is<Fi> great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

`Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake--because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

`Happy the clean in heart--because they shall see God.

Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that <FI>are<Fi> in the garden of God.

In Eden, the garden of God, thou hast been, Every precious stone thy covering, Ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold, The workmanship of thy tabrets, and of thy pipes, In thee in the day of thy being produced, have been prepared. — read the full passage →

In Eden, the garden of God, thou hast been, Every precious stone thy covering, Ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold, The workmanship of thy tabrets, and of thy pipes, In thee in the day of thy being produced, have been prepared. — read the full passage →

`Son of man, lift up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, And thou hast said to him: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Thou art sealing up a measurement, Full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. — read the full passage →