Daniel 12:3

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But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever.

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  • Dan 11:33 : 33 These who are wise among the people will teach the masses. However, they will fall by the sword and by the flame, and they will be imprisoned and plundered for some time.
  • Matt 13:43 : 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!
  • Dan 11:35 : 35 Even some of the wise will stumble, resulting in their refinement, purification, and cleansing until the time of the end, for it is still for the appointed time.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.
  • Prov 11:30 : 30 The fruit of the righteous is like a tree producing life, and the one who wins souls is wise.
  • Jer 23:22 : 22 But if they had stood in my inner circle, they would have proclaimed my message to my people. They would have caused my people to turn from their wicked ways and stop doing the evil things they are doing.
  • Matt 19:28 : 28 Jesus said to them,“I tell you the truth: In the age when all things are renewed, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • Matt 24:45 : 45 The Faithful and Wise Slave“Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their food at the proper time?
  • Luke 1:16-17 : 16 He will turn many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 And he will go as forerunner before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.”
  • John 4:36 : 36 The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.
  • John 5:35 : 35 He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.
  • 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.
  • 1 Cor 15:40-42 : 40 And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory. 42 It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.
  • Eph 4:11 : 11 And he himself gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
  • Phil 2:16-17 : 16 by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain. 17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.
  • 1 Thess 2:19-20 : 19 For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you? 20 For you are our glory and joy!
  • Heb 5:12 : 12 For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.
  • Jas 5:19-20 : 19 My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, 20 he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from his wandering path will save that person’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
  • 2 Pet 3:15 : 15 And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our dear brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,
  • Rev 1:20 : 20 The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
  • Acts 13:1 : 1 The Church at Antioch Commissions Barnabas and Saul Now there were these prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen(a close friend of Herod the tetrarch from childhood) and Saul.

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