Morning:Job 3:17; Luke 12:32; Romans 8:18; 2 Corinthians 4:17–18; 2 Corinthians 5:4; Hebrews 10:34; Hebrews 13:14; 1 Peter 1:6; Revelation 21:4

We look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

For here we have no lasting city.—You knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.”—Now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials.—“There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.”

For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened.—“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

The sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.—For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

Job 3:17 (Listen)

17   There the wicked cease from troubling,
    and there the weary are at rest.

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Luke 12:32 (Listen)

32 “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

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Romans 8:18 (Listen)

Future Glory

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

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2 Corinthians 4:17–18 (Listen)

17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

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2 Corinthians 5:4 (Listen)

4 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

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Hebrews 10:34 (Listen)

34 For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

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Hebrews 13:14 (Listen)

14 For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

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1 Peter 1:6 (Listen)

6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,

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Revelation 21:4 (Listen)

4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

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Evening:John 14:27; 2 Corinthians 5:19; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Ephesians 2:14–15; Colossians 1:20–22; Colossians 2:14

For he himself is our peace.

In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them…. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.—Through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him.—By canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.—By abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace.

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”

John 14:27 (Listen)

27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

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2 Corinthians 5:19 (Listen)

19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling1 the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

Footnotes

[1] 5:19 Or God was in Christ, reconciling

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2 Corinthians 5:21 (Listen)

21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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Ephesians 2:14–15 (Listen)

14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,

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Colossians 1:20–22 (Listen)

20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,

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Colossians 2:14 (Listen)

14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

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