Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world?(A) And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?

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30 so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom(A) and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.(B)

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28 Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne,(A) you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.(B)

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I saw thrones(A) on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge.(B) And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded(C) because of their testimony about Jesus(D) and because of the word of God.(E) They[a] had not worshiped the beast(F) or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands.(G) They came to life and reigned(H) with Christ a thousand years.

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  1. Revelation 20:4 Or God; I also saw those who

21 To the one who is victorious,(A) I will give the right to sit with me on my throne,(B) just as I was victorious(C) and sat down with my Father on his throne.

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22 until the Ancient of Days came and pronounced judgment in favor of the holy people of the Most High, and the time came when they possessed the kingdom.(A)

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26 To the one who is victorious(A) and does my will to the end,(B) I will give authority over the nations(C) 27 that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter(D) and will dash them to pieces like pottery’[a](E)—just as I have received authority from my Father.

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  1. Revelation 2:27 Psalm 2:9

18 But the holy people(A) of the Most High will receive the kingdom(B) and will possess it forever—yes, for ever and ever.’(C)

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14 Enoch,(A) the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming(B) with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones(C) 15 to judge(D) everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”[a](E)

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  1. Jude 1:15 From the Jewish First Book of Enoch (approximately the first century b.c.)

13 May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless(A) and holy in the presence of our God and Father(B) when our Lord Jesus comes(C) with all his holy ones.(D)

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18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen,(A) since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

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Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church?

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Let his faithful people rejoice(A) in this honor
    and sing for joy on their beds.(B)

May the praise of God be in their mouths(C)
    and a double-edged(D) sword in their hands,(E)
to inflict vengeance(F) on the nations
    and punishment(G) on the peoples,
to bind their kings with fetters,(H)
    their nobles with shackles of iron,(I)
to carry out the sentence written against them—(J)
    this is the glory of all his faithful people.(K)

Praise the Lord.

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14 They are like sheep and are destined(A) to die;(B)
    death will be their shepherd
    (but the upright will prevail(C) over them in the morning).
Their forms will decay in the grave,
    far from their princely mansions.

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16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh,(A) the lust of the eyes,(B) and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away,(C) but whoever does the will of God(D) lives forever.

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You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake[a](A) in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come,(B) and all the holy ones with him.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 14:5 Or My mountain valley will be blocked and will extend to Azel. It will be blocked as it was blocked because of the earthquake

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