⁹ For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

²⁰ For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:

¹⁹ Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

²⁰ But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away:

²¹ For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.

⁹ And when he had said these things, while they were looking, he was taken up, and went from their view into a cloud.

¹⁷ Ah Lord God! see, you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm, and there is nothing you are not able to do:

¹⁸ The Lord will keep me safe from every evil work and will give me salvation in his kingdom in heaven: to whom be glory for ever and ever. So be it.

⁷ For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;

⁸ But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough.

⁹ But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

⁵ Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.

²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth.

¹⁴ But Jesus said, Let the little ones come to me, and do not keep them away: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

⁶ It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.

² Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth.

⁸ Our help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.

² Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge.

³ There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound.

² In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?

¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;

¹⁷ Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.

¹⁸ So then, give comfort to one another with these words.

² My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

³ And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

⁴ Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

²¹ Jesus said to him, If you have a desire to be complete, go, get money for your property, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come after me.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

¹² For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

⁵⁰ And he took them out till they were near Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he gave them a blessing.

⁵¹ And while he was doing so, he went from them and was taken up into heaven.

⁵² And they gave him worship and went back to Jerusalem with great joy.

¹ For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

²⁴ In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.

¹⁵ And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?