12 Bible Verses About The Blessed Hope
12 Bible verses about The Blessed Hope to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
while we wait for the blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
The Lord himself will come down from heaven at a shout of command, at an archangel’s call and the sound of God’s trumpet, and the dead who belong to Christ will rise first. Then those of us still living, who are left, will be swept up with them into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. From then on we will be with the Lord always.
Dear friends, we are children of God now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he truly is. Everyone whose hope is set on him in this way makes themselves pure, just as he is pure.
The one who testifies to all this says, “Yes, I am coming soon!” Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!
“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why stand there gazing up at the sky? This Jesus has been taken up from you into heaven, and he will come in the very way you saw him leave for heaven.”
Dear friends, we are children of God now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he truly is.
But we hold our citizenship in heaven, and it is from there that we are eagerly waiting for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change these bodies of our humble state and give them the same form as his glorious body, by the working of his power to bring all things under his rule.
Christ is your life. When he is revealed, you too will be revealed with him in glory.
Now there is waiting for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Every tribe on earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on heaven’s clouds, with power and great glory.
Listen, I am telling you a mystery. Not all of us will die, but all of us will be changed, in an instant, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet sounds. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised, never again to decay, and we who are alive will be changed.
Look! He is coming with the clouds. Every eye will see him, those who pierced him among them, and all the tribes of the earth will beat their breasts in grief over him. Yes! Amen.