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Colossians 3:3-4
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
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Luke 24:48
You are witnesses of these things.
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Romans 8:17-18
and if children, also heirs— heirs of God and coheirs with Christ— if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.
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Psalms 73:24-25
You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me up in glory.Who do I have in heaven but you? And I desire nothing on earth but you.
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1 Peter 5 4
And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.
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Revelation 1:9
I, John, your brother and partner in the affliction, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
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Acts 11:30
They did this, sending it to the elders by means of Barnabas and Saul.
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Acts 15:22-23
Then the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, decided to select men who were among them and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas, called Barsabbas, and Silas, both leading men among the brothers.They wrote:“ From the apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers and sisters among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.
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1John 3:2
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1 Peter 1 7
so that the proven character of your faith— more valuable than gold which, though perishable, is refined by fire— may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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2John 1 1-3 John 1 15
(niv)
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Acts 20:17
From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church. (niv)
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Acts 21:18
The next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James, and all the elders were present. (niv)
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Philippians 1:21-23
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know!I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; (niv)
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2 Timothy 4 8
Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day— and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing. (niv)
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Acts 3:15
You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this. (niv)
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Acts 15:6
The apostles and elders met to consider this question. (niv)
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1 Peter 1 3-1 Peter 1 5
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. (niv)
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Acts 20:28
Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. (niv)
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1 Timothy 5 1
Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, (niv)
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Acts 1:22
beginning from John’s baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection.” (niv)
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1 Timothy 5 19
Do not entertain an accusation against an elder unless it is brought by two or three witnesses. (niv)
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Acts 10:39-41
“ We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross,but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen.He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen— by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. (niv)
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Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (niv)
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2 Corinthians 5 1
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. (niv)
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John 15:26-27
“ When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father— the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father— he will testify about me.And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning. (niv)
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Philippians 1:19
for I know that through your prayers and God’s provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance. (niv)
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Philemon 1:9
yet I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of love. It is as none other than Paul— an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus— (niv)
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Titus 1:5
The reason I left you in Crete was that you might put in order what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you. (niv)
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1 Peter 1 12
It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things. (niv)
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Acts 14:23
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust. (niv)
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Acts 15:4
When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them. (niv)
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Acts 2:32
God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. (niv)
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Acts 5:30-32
The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead— whom you killed by hanging him on a cross.God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might bring Israel to repentance and forgive their sins.We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.” (niv)
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2 Corinthians 5 8
We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. (niv)