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For David did not ascend into the heavens: but he says himself, "The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,

and said, Look, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

to a dispensation of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth; in him, [I say,]

He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

for in him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and to him;

and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens.

And, You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of your hands:

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

For such was indeed fitting for us [as] a high priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

Now in the things which we are saying the chief point [is this]: We have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be found.

looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.

Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.