Study Desk

And Jesus being baptized, went up straightway from the water, and lo the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and coming upon him.

And lo a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I delight.

Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light; and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

And coming up from the water, straitway he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him.

And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken.

Sell what ye have and give alms: provide yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

Men fainting away for fear, and expectation of the things coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

For David is not ascended into the heavens; but he saith himself, The Lord said to my Lord,

And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right-hand of God.

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

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

And, Thou, Lord, hast in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

Having therefore a great high priest, that is passed thro' the heavens, Jesus the son of God,

For such an high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

The sum of what hath been spoken is, We have such an high priest, who is set down at the right-hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

For this they are willingly ignorant of, that by the word of God of old the heavens were and the earth, standing out of the water and in the water,

But the heavens and the earth that are now, are by his word kept in store reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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

Looking for and hastning the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

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