The Bride Of Christ
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave
himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by
the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church
to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that
she might be holy and without blemish.
Revelation 19:7-9 ESV / 348 helpful votes
Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage
of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was
granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the
fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. And the angel said to
me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage
supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of
God.”
Revelation 21:2 ESV / 191 helpful votes
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven
from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
2 Corinthians 11:2 ESV / 171 helpful votes
For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Isaiah 54:5 ESV / 171 helpful votes
For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
Revelation 21:9 ESV / 152 helpful votes
Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of
the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you
the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 145 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
John 3:29 ESV / 143 helpful votes
The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the
bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the
bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.
Revelation 21:9-11 ESV / 122 helpful votes
Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of
the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you
the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit
to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming
down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, its radiance like a
most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.
Isaiah 62:5 ESV / 107 helpful votes
For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry
you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God
rejoice over you.
Ephesians 5:27 ESV / 84 helpful votes
So that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without
spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without
blemish.
Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 79 helpful votes
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their
lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and
five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil
with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the
bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...
Mark 2:19-20 ESV / 73 helpful votes
And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the
bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them,
they cannot fast. The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away
from them, and then they will fast in that day.
Hosea 2:16-23 ESV / 66 helpful votes
“And in that day, declares the Lord, you
will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ For
I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be
remembered by name no more. And I will make for them a covenant on that
day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the
creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword,
and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety. And I
will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in
righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. I will
betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord. ...
2 Corinthians 11:1-4 ESV / 64 helpful votes
I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with
me! For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one
husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that
as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led
astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes
and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you
receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a
different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily
enough.
John 14:1-3 ESV / 56 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in
me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have
told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that
where I am you may be also.
Matthew 25:1-18 ESV / 56 helpful votes
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their
lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and
five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil
with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the
bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...
Ezekiel 16:8 ESV / 55 helpful votes
“When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the
age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered
your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with
you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine.
Jeremiah 2:2 ESV / 49 helpful votes
“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, “I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
Jeremiah 31:31-34 ESV / 46 helpful votes
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house
of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the
day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt,
my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And
I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall
each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Ephesians 5:32 ESV / 37 helpful votes
This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
Revelation 19:7 ESV / 34 helpful votes
Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage
of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready;
Hosea 1:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord
said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have
children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking
the Lord.”
Isaiah 62:1-10 ESV / 28 helpful votes
For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I
will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and
her salvation as a burning torch. The nations shall see your
righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a
new name that the mouth of the Lord will give. You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. You shall no more be termed
Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall
be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Lord
delights in you, and your land shall be married. For as a young man
marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the
bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
...
Revelation 21:9-10 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of
the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you
the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit
to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming
down out of heaven from God,
Revelation 22:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes
The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears
say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who
desires take the water of life without price.
Psalm 45:14-15 ESV / 21 helpful votes
In many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin
companions following behind her. With joy and gladness they are led
along as they enter the palace of the king.
Revelation 19:7-8 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage
of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was
granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the
fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.
Matthew 25:1-13 ESV / 18 helpful votes
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their
lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and
five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil
with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the
bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...
Psalm 19:3-6 ESV / 17 helpful votes
There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.
Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end
of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out
like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its
course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its
circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.
Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
Genesis 2:21-23 ESV / 15 helpful votes
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall
upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its
place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God
had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
Matthew 9:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as
the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is
taken away from them, and then they will fast.
Revelation 19:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are
invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These
are the true words of God.”
Isaiah 12:1-6 ESV / 13 helpful votes
You will say in that day: “I will give thanks to you, O Lord,
for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you
might comfort me. “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will
not be afraid; for the Lord God
is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.” With joy
you will draw water from the wells of salvation. And you will say in
that day: “Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted. “Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth. ...
Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband
is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his
body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so
also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands,
love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water
with the word, ...
Genesis 24:1-67 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord
had blessed Abraham in all things. And Abraham said to his servant, the
oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, “Put your
hand under my thigh, that I may make you swear by the Lord,
the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife
for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell, but
will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son
Isaac.” The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing
to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land
from which you came?” ...
Revelation 19:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes
It was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and
pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.
Genesis 24:60 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you
become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the
gate of those who hate him!”
Revelation 19:1-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great
multitude in heaven, crying out, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and
power belong to our God, for his judgments are true and just; for he has
judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her
immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants.” Once more
they cried out, “Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up forever and
ever.” And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell
down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, “Amen.
Hallelujah!” And from the throne came a voice saying, “Praise our God,
all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great.” ...
Colossians 3:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Revelation 21:1-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and
the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the
holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared
as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the
throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will
dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be
with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,
and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying,
nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who
was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”
Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and
true.” ...
Revelation 19:6-8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like
the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder,
crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns. Let
us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the
Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her
to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen
is the righteous deeds of the saints.
Revelation 12:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that
she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where
she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
Revelation 12:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations
with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his
throne,
Revelation 12:1-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun,
with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of
giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red
dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.
His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the
earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give
birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave
birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of
iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, ...
Revelation 3:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my
God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my
God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes
down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
Revelation 3:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep
you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try
those who dwell on the earth.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his
servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by
sending his angel to his servant John,
1 Peter 3:1-7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if
some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct
of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not
let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of
gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the
hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and
quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the
holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to
their own husbands, ...
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of
command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the
trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 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, and so we will always be with the Lord.
Ephesians 5:22-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband
is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his
body, and is himself its Savior.
Ephesians 4:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes
To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Romans 7:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the
body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been
raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
John 16:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In
the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the
world.”
Matthew 25:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those
who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was
shut.
Matthew 25:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Revelation 21:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Revelation 21:10-12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and
showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a
jasper, clear as crystal. It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates,
and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve
tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed—
Revelation 12:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place
prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.
Revelation 7:1-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the
earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow
on earth or sea or against any tree. Then I saw another angel ascending
from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he
called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to
harm earth and sea, saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the
trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”
And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe
of the sons of Israel: 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed,
12,000 from the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 from the tribe of Gad, ...
2 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in
love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering
and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or
covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among
saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking,
which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you
may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or
who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the
kingdom of Christ and God. ...
1 Corinthians 12:12-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the
members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks,
slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body
does not consist of one member but of many.
Romans 11:1-36 ESV / 6 helpful votes
I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself
am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of
Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not
know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against
Israel? “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your
altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” But what is God's
reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not
bowed the knee to Baal.” So too at the present time there is a remnant,
chosen by grace. ...
Malachi 2:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord
was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have
been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
Isaiah 60:1-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord
will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you. And nations
shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Lift up your eyes all around, and see; they all gather together, they
come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be
carried on the hip. Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall
thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to
you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you. ...
Genesis 2:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
Revelation 22:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes
He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
Revelation 21:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates
twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the
sons of Israel were inscribed—
Revelation 21:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and
showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
Revelation 21:2-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven
from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a
loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is
with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God
himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear
from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be
mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have
passed away.”
Revelation 20:4-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the
authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had
been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and
those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received
its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and
reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not
come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first
resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first
resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be
priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a
thousand years.
Revelation 19:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me,
“You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers
who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of
Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Revelation 19:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like
the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder,
crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.
Revelation 18:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of
bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants
were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your
sorcery.
Revelation 17:1-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said
to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who
is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have
committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual
immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” And he carried me
away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a
scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads
and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned
with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full
of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her
forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of
prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” ...
Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven
heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.
And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a
bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave
his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed
to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole
earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the
dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped
the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against
it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous
words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.
...
Revelation 12:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.
Revelation 12:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon,
with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.
Revelation 12:1-2 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun,
with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of
giving birth.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
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, and so we will
always be with the Lord.
Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or
Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to
Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now
these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the
word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these
things were so.
Matthew 25:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.
Matthew 16:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my
church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Hosea 2:14-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the
wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. And there I will give her her
vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she
shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came
out of the land of Egypt. “And in that day, declares the Lord,
you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My
Baal.’ For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they
shall be remembered by name no more. And I will make for them a
covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the
heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the
bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in
safety. ...
Isaiah 62:4-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more
be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and
your land Married; for the Lord delights in you,
and your land shall be married. For as a young man marries a young
woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over
the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
Revelation 22:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this
prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the
holy city, which are described in this book.
Revelation 22:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book:
if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in
this book,
Revelation 22:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the
right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.
Revelation 21:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the
water of life without payment.
Revelation 21:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and
the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Revelation 21:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and
the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the
holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared
as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 14:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
