Céu
O céu é a morada eterna de Deus e a esperança final do cristão. A Bíblia descreve o céu como lugar de glória, alegria e comunhão perfeita com o Criador.
A morada de Deus
Na casa de meu Pai há muitas moradas. Os céus declaram a glória de Deus — e um dia habitaremos lá eternamente.
In the house of my Father be many dwellings; if anything less, I had said to you, for I go to make ready to you a place.
To victory, the psalm of David. Heavens tell out the glory of God; and the firmament telleth the works of his hands.
The day telleth out to the day a word; and the night showeth know-ing to the night.
God, be thou enhanced above heavens; and thy glory over all earth.
Our help is in the name of the Lord; that made heaven and earth.
For why what is to me in heaven; and what would or desire I of thee on earth?
In the beginning God made of nought heaven and earth.
Forsooth the earth was idle and void, and darknesses were on the face of depth; and the Spirit of the Lord was borne on the waters [or the Spirit of God was borne upon the waters].
He that buildeth his going up in heaven, shall do these things, and founded his burden on earth; which calleth waters of the sea, and poureth out them on the face of earth; the Lord is name of him.
A man shall not be privy in hid places, and I shall not see him, saith the Lord. Whether I fill not heaven and earth? saith the Lord.
Alas! alas! alas! Lord God, Lord, thou madest heaven and earth in thy great strength, and in thine arm stretched forth; each word shall not be hard to thee;
Cidadania celestial
A nossa cidadania está nos céus. Ajuntai tesouros no céu, não na terra. O céu é a pátria do cristão.
But our living is in heavens [or in heaven]; from whence also we abide the Saviour our Lord Jesus Christ,
Do not ye treasure to you treasures [here] in earth, where rust and moth destroyeth, and where thieves delve out, and steal;
but gather ye to you treasures in heaven, where neither rust nor moth destroyeth, and where thieves delve not out, nor steal.
But Jesus said to them, Suffer ye that little children come to me, and do not ye forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heavens.
Jesus saith to him, If thou wilt be perfect, go, and sell all things that thou hast, and give to poor men, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, and pursue me.
heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass.
Savour [or Understand] ye those things that be above, not those that be on the earth.
Esperança eterna
Seremos arrebatados para encontrar o Senhor nos ares. Ainda não se manifestou o que havemos de ser — mas seremos semelhantes a Ele.
For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven, in the command-ment [or in the commanding], and in the voice of an archangel, and in the trump of God; and the dead men that be in Christ, shall rise again first.
Afterward we that live, that be left, shall be ravished together with them in clouds, meeting Christ in the air; and so evermore we shall be with the Lord.
Most dear brethren, now we be the sons of God, and yet it appeared not, what we shall be. We know, that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
And each man that hath this hope in him, maketh himself holy, as he is holy.
And the Lord delivered me from all evil work, and shall make me safe into his heavenly kingdom, to whom be glory into worlds of worlds. Amen.
And he led them forth into Bethany, and when his hands were lifted up, he blessed them.
And it was done, the while he blessed them [or while he blessed them], he departed from them, and was borne into heaven.
And when he had said these things, in their sight he was lifted up, and a cloud received him from their eyes.
For why striving [or battle] is not to us against flesh and blood, but against [the] princes and potentates, against governors of the world of these darknesses, against spiritual things of wickedness, in heavenly things.
For we brought in nothing into this world, and no doubt, that we may not bear anything away.
But we having foods, and with what things we shall be covered [or clothed], be we satisfied with these things.
For as heavens be raised from earth, so my ways be raised from your ways, and my thoughts from your thoughts.
All things have time, and all things under [the] sun pass by their spaces.
As he went naked out of his mother’s womb, so he shall turn again; and he shall take away with him nothing of his travail.