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Children: Future State of Matthew 18:10

See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.

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Children: Future State of Matthew 19:14

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

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Fishes of Men Ignorant of Future Events Ecclesiastes 9:12

For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.

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Future Proverbs 16:9

A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.

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Future Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

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Future James 4:13–15

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” / You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. / Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”

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Future Isaiah 40:31

But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

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Future Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

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Future John 16:33

I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

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Future Matthew 11:28

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

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Future Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

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Future 1 Corinthians 2:9, 10

Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.” / But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

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Future Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

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Gardens of Eden: The Future State of the Jews Shall be Like Isaiah 51:3

For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.

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Gardens of Eden: The Future State of the Jews Shall be Like Ezekiel 36:35

Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’

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Heaven: The Future Dwelling Place of the Righteous: A Heavenly Country Hebrews 11:16

Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

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Heaven: The Future Dwelling Place of the Righteous: A Rest Hebrews 4:9

There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

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Heaven: The Future Dwelling Place of the Righteous: A Rest Revelation 14:13

And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”

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Heaven: The Future Dwelling Place of the Righteous: Called a Garner Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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Heaven: The Future Dwelling Place of the Righteous: Paradise 2 Corinthians 12:2, 4

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows. / was caught up to Paradise. The things he heard were too sacred for words, things that man is not permitted to tell.

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Heaven: The Future Dwelling Place of the Righteous: The Father's House John 14:2

In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?

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Heaven: The Future Dwelling Place of the Righteous: The Kingdom of Christ and of God Ephesians 5:5

For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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Heaven: The Future Dwelling Place of the Righteous: The Wicked Excluded From Galatians 5:21

and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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Heaven: The Future Dwelling Place of the Righteous: The Wicked Excluded From Ephesians 5:5

For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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Heaven: The Future Dwelling Place of the Righteous: The Wicked Excluded From Revelation 22:15

But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Psalm 9:17

The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Proverbs 9:13, 15–18

The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing. / calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight. / But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Proverbs 15:24

The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Proverbs 23:13, 14

Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die. / Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Isaiah 30:33

For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Isaiah 33:14

The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 5:29, 30

If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. / And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 7:13, 14

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. / But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 8:11, 12

I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. / But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 10:28

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 13:30, 38–42, 49, 50

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’” / The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, / And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 16:18

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 18:8, 9, 34, 35

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire. / And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell. / In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 22:13

Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 25:28–30, 41, 46

Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten talents. / For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. / And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Mark 9:43–48

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire. / 0 / If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Luke 3:17

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Luke 16:23–26, 28

In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side. / So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.’ / But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Acts 1:25

to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked 2 Thessalonians 1:9

They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked 2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Jude 1:6–23

And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day. / In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire. / Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Revelation 2:11

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Revelation 9:1, 2

Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss. / The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Revelation 11:7

When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Revelation 14:10, 11

he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. / And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Revelation 19:20

But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Revelation 20:10, 15

And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. / And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Revelation 21:8

But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

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Hell: The Place of Future Punishment: Destruction from the Presence of God 2 Thessalonians 1:9

They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Isaiah 22:22

I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Mark 14:62

“I am,” said Jesus, “and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of 1 Peter 3:22

who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Jude 1:14, 15

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones / to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Revelation 1:5–7, 18

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood, / who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen. / Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen.

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Revelation 2:23

Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Revelation 3:7, 14, 21

To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open. / To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Originator of God’s creation. / To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Revelation 5:5, 12

Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.” / In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Revelation 6:16, 17

And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. / For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Revelation 7:9–17

After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands. / And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” / And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. And they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God,

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Revelation 12:10

And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down—he who accuses them day and night before our God.

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Revelation 14:14

And I looked and saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was One like the Son of Man, with a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Revelation 17:14

They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen and faithful ones.”

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Revelation 19:11, 12, 15, 16

Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war. / He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows. / And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

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Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning the Future Glory and Power of Revelation 20:4, 6

Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their 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 hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. / Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him for a thousand years.

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Knowing the Future Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

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Knowing the Future Proverbs 19:21

Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.

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Knowing the Future Isaiah 55:8

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

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Knowing the Future Romans 8:28

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

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Knowing the Future Psalm 139:4

Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.

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Knowing the Future 1 John 3:20

Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.

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Knowing the Future Deuteronomy 18:20–22

But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.” / You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?” / When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.

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Knowing the Future John 16:13

However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

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Knowing the Future Ephesians 1:11

In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

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Light: Future Glory of Saints Psalm 97:11

Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.

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Light: Future Glory of Saints Colossians 1:12

giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

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Midianites: Shall Minister to Future Glory of the Church Isaiah 60:6

Caravans of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah, and all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and frankincense and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.

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Miracles: should be Told to Future Generations Exodus 10:2

and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”

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Miracles: should be Told to Future Generations Judges 6:13

“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

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My Future Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

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My Future Psalm 37:5

Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.

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My Future Proverbs 16:9

A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.

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My Future 3 John 1:2

Beloved, I pray that in every way you may prosper and enjoy good health, as your soul also prospers.

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My Future John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.

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My Future Matthew 6:26, 27

Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? / Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

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Persecution: The Hope of Future Blessedness Supports Under 1 Corinthians 15:19, 32

If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men. / If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

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Persecution: The Hope of Future Blessedness Supports Under Hebrews 10:34, 35

You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession. / So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.

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Plans for the Future Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

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Plans for the Future Proverbs 16:3

Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.

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Plans for the Future Proverbs 19:21

Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.

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Plans for the Future Isaiah 55:8, 9

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. / “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

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Plans for the Future Luke 12:32

Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.

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