Hebrews 12:23

New Century Version

You have come to the meeting of God’s firstborn children whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all people, and to the spirits of good people who have been made perfect.

Cross References

Genesis 18:25

Surely you will not destroy the good people along with the evil ones; then they would be treated the same. You are the judge of all the earth. Won’t you do what is right?”

Psalm 111:1

Praise the Lord! I will thank the Lord with all my heart in the meeting of his good people.

Psalm 69:28

Wipe their names from the book of life, and do not list them with those who do what is right.

Psalm 89:27

I will make him my firstborn son, the greatest king on earth.

Psalm 89:7

When the holy ones meet, it is God they fear. He is more frightening than all who surround him.

Psalm 94:2

Rise up, Judge of the earth, and give the proud what they deserve.

Psalm 96:13

before the Lord, because he is coming. He is coming to judge the world; he will judge the world with fairness and the peoples with truth.

Psalm 98:9

Let them sing before the Lord, because he is coming to judge the world. He will judge the world fairly; he will judge the peoples with fairness.

Exodus 13:2

“Give every firstborn male to me. Every firstborn male among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.”

Exodus 32:32

Now, please forgive them of this sin. If you will not, then erase my name from the book in which you have written the names of your people.”

Exodus 4:22

Then say to the king, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

You will turn back into the dust of the earth again, but your spirit will return to God who gave it.

Jeremiah 31:9

They will be crying as they come, but they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead those people by streams of water on an even road where they will not stumble. I am Israel’s father, and Israel is my firstborn son.

Luke 10:20

But you should not be happy because the spirits obey you but because your names are written in heaven.”

John 5:27

And the Father has given the Son the approval to judge, because he is the Son of Man.

Acts 20:28

Be careful for yourselves and for all the people the Holy Spirit has given to you to oversee. You must be like shepherds to the church of God, which he bought with the death of his own son.

1 Corinthians 13:12

It is the same with us. Now we see a dim reflection, as if we were looking into a mirror, but then we shall see clearly. Now I know only a part, but then I will know fully, as God has known me.

1 Corinthians 15:49

Just as we were made like the man of earth, so we will also be made like the man of heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:54

So this body that can be destroyed will clothe itself with that which can never be destroyed, and this body that dies will clothe itself with that which can never die. When this happens, this Scripture will be made true: “Death is destroyed forever in victory.”

2 Corinthians 5:8

So I say that we have courage. We really want to be away from this body and be at home with the Lord.

Ephesians 1:22

God put everything under his power and made him the head over everything for the church,

Deuteronomy 21:17

He must agree to give the older son two shares of everything he owns, even though the older son is from the wife he does not love. That son was the first to prove his father could have children, so he has the rights that belong to the older son.

Philippians 4:3

And I ask you, my faithful friend, to help these women. They served with me in telling the Good News, together with Clement and others who worked with me, whose names are written in the book of life.

Colossians 1:12

And you will joyfully give thanks to the Father who has made you able to have a share in all that he has prepared for his people in the kingdom of light.

Colossians 1:24

I am happy in my sufferings for you. There are things that Christ must still suffer through his body, the church. I am accepting, in my body, my part of these things that must be suffered.

1 Timothy 3:5

(If someone does not know how to lead the family, how can that person take care of God’s church?)

Hebrews 11:4

It was by faith that Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. God said he was pleased with the gifts Abel offered and called Abel a good man because of his faith. Abel died, but through his faith he is still speaking.

Hebrews 11:40

God planned to give us something better so that they would be made perfect, but only together with us.

Hebrews 2:12

He says, “Then, I will tell my brothers and sisters about you; I will praise you in the public meeting.”

Hebrews 9:27

Just as everyone must die once and then be judged,

James 1:18

God decided to give us life through the word of truth so we might be the most important of all the things he made.

1 Peter 2:23

People insulted Christ, but he did not insult them in return. Christ suffered, but he did not threaten. He let God, the One who judges rightly, take care of him.

Revelation 13:8

And all who live on earth will worship the beast—all the people since the beginning of the world whose names are not written in the Lamb’s book of life. The Lamb is the One who was killed.

Revelation 14:4

These are the ones who did not do sinful things with women, because they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb every place he goes. These one hundred forty-four thousand were bought from among the people of the earth as people to be offered to God and the Lamb.

Revelation 20:15

And anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 6:11

Then each one of them was given a white robe and was told to wait a short time longer. There were still some of their fellow servants and brothers and sisters in the service of Christ who must be killed as they were. They had to wait until all of this was finished.

Revelation 6:9

When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been killed because they were faithful to the word of God and to the message they had received.