Bible Cross References
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2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that when this tent we live in---our body here on earth---is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last forever.
Hebrews 11:10
For Abraham was waiting for the city which God has designed and built, the city with permanent foundations.
Hebrews 11:14-16
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Those who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own.
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They did not keep thinking about the country they had left; if they had, they would have had the chance to return.
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Instead, it was a better country they longed for, the heavenly country. And so God is not ashamed for them to call him their God, because he has prepared a city for them.
Hebrews 13:14
For there is no permanent city for us here on earth; we are looking for the city which is to come.
Revelation 3:12
I will make those who are victorious pillars in the temple of my God, and they will never leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which will come down out of heaven from my God. I will also write on them my new name.
Revelation 3:21
To those who win the victory I will give the right to sit beside me on my throne, just as I have been victorious and now sit by my Father on his throne.
Revelation 21:10-27
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The Spirit took control of me, and the angel carried me to the top of a very high mountain. He showed me Jerusalem, the Holy City, coming down out of heaven from God
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and shining with the glory of God. The city shone like a precious stone, like a jasper, clear as crystal.
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It had a great, high wall with twelve gates and with twelve angels in charge of the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of the people of Israel.
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There were three gates on each side: three on the east, three on the south, three on the north, and three on the west.
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The city's wall was built on twelve foundation stones, on which were written the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
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The angel who spoke to me had a gold measuring stick to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.
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The city was perfectly square, as wide as it was long. The angel measured the city with his measuring stick: it was fifteen hundred miles long and was as wide and as high as it was long.
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The angel also measured the wall, and it was 216 feet high, according to the standard unit of measure which he was using.
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The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself was made of pure gold, as clear as glass.
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The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation stone was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,
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the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh yellow quartz, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chalcedony, the eleventh turquoise, the twelfth amethyst.
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The twelve gates were twelve pearls; each gate was made from a single pearl. The street of the city was of pure gold, transparent as glass.
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I did not see a temple in the city, because its temple is the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb.
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The city has no need of the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God shines on it, and the Lamb is its lamp.
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The peoples of the world will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their wealth into it.
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The gates of the city will stand open all day; they will never be closed, because there will be no night there.
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The greatness and the wealth of the nations will be brought into the city.
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But nothing that is impure will enter the city, nor anyone who does shameful things or tells lies. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of the living will enter the city.
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John 12:25
Those who love their own life will lose it; those who hate their own life in this world will keep it for life eternal.
John 12:26
Whoever wants to serve me must follow me, so that my servant will be with me where I am. And my Father will honor anyone who serves me.
John 16:4
But I have told you this, so that when the time comes for them to do these things, you will remember what I told you. "I did not tell you these things at the beginning, for I was with you.
Luke 14:26-33
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"Those who come to me cannot be my disciples unless they love me more than they love father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and themselves as well.
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Those who do not carry their own cross and come after me cannot be my disciples.
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If one of you is planning to build a tower, you sit down first and figure out what it will cost, to see if you have enough money to finish the job.
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If you don't, you will not be able to finish the tower after laying the foundation; and all who see what happened will make fun of you.
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'You began to build but can't finish the job!' they will say.
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If a king goes out with ten thousand men to fight another king who comes against him with twenty thousand men, he will sit down first and decide if he is strong enough to face that other king.
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If he isn't, he will send messengers to meet the other king to ask for terms of peace while he is still a long way off.
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In the same way," concluded Jesus, "none of you can be my disciple unless you give up everything you have.
Acts 9:16
And I myself will show him all that he must suffer for my sake."
1 Thessalonians 3:3
so that none of you should turn back because of these persecutions. You yourselves know that such persecutions are part of God's will for us.
1 Thessalonians 3:4
For while we were still with you, we told you ahead of time that we were going to be persecuted; and as you well know, that is exactly what happened.
1 Thessalonians 5:9
God did not choose us to suffer his anger, but to possess salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Thessalonians 1:4-10
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That is why we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God. We boast about the way you continue to endure and believe through all the persecutions and sufferings you are experiencing.
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All of this proves that God's judgment is just and as a result you will become worthy of his Kingdom, for which you are suffering.
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God will do what is right: he will bring suffering on those who make you suffer,
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and he will give relief to you who suffer and to us as well. He will do this when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven with his mighty angels,
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with a flaming fire, to punish those who reject God and who do not obey the Good News about our Lord Jesus.
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They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from his glorious might,
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when he comes on that Day to receive glory from all his people and honor from all who believe. You too will be among them, because you have believed the message that we told you.
Titus 1:2
which is based on the hope for eternal life. God, who does not lie, promised us this life before the beginning of time,
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first to be raised from death and who is also the ruler of the kings of the world. He loves us, and by his sacrificial death he has freed us from our sins
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John 13:33
My children, I shall not be with you very much longer. You will look for me; but I tell you now what I told the Jewish authorities, 'You cannot go where I am going.'
John 13:36
"Where are you going, Lord?" Simon Peter asked him. "You cannot follow me now where I am going," answered Jesus; "but later you will follow me."
John 17:24
"Father! You have given them to me, and I want them to be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory, the glory you gave me; for you loved me before the world was made.
Hebrews 6:20
On our behalf Jesus has gone in there before us and has become a high priest forever, in the priestly order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 9:8
The Holy Spirit clearly teaches from all these arrangements that the way into the Most Holy Place has not yet been opened as long as the outer tent still stands.
Hebrews 9:23-26
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Those things, which are copies of the heavenly originals, had to be purified in that way. But the heavenly things themselves require much better sacrifices.
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For Christ did not go into a Holy Place made by human hands, which was a copy of the real one. He went into heaven itself, where he now appears on our behalf in the presence of God.
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The Jewish high priest goes into the Most Holy Place every year with the blood of an animal. But Christ did not go in to offer himself many times,
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for then he would have had to suffer many times ever since the creation of the world. Instead, now when all ages of time are nearing the end, he has appeared once and for all, to remove sin through the sacrifice of himself.
Hebrews 11:16
Instead, it was a better country they longed for, the heavenly country. And so God is not ashamed for them to call him their God, because he has prepared a city for them.
Revelation 21:2
And I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared and ready, like a bride dressed to meet her husband.