Exodus 32:32-33
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32 Now if you would only forgive their sin! But if you will not, then blot me out of the book that you have written.”[a] 33 The Lord answered Moses: Only the one who has sinned against me will I blot out of my book.
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- 32:32 The book that you have written: a symbolic reference to the list of God’s faithful people.
Psalm 69:29
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29 May they be blotted from the book of life;
not registered among the just!(A)
Daniel 12:1
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Chapter 12
The Resurrection
1 “At that time there shall arise Michael,(A)
the great prince,
guardian of your people;
It shall be a time unsurpassed in distress
since the nation began until that time.
At that time your people shall escape,
everyone who is found written in the book.[a]
Luke 10:20
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20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”(A)
Praise of the Father.(B)
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Revelation 3:5
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5 “‘“The victor will thus be dressed in white,[a] and I will never erase his name from the book of life but will acknowledge his name in the presence of my Father and of his angels.(A)
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Revelation 13:8
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8 All the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, all whose names were not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life, which belongs to the Lamb who was slain.(A)
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Revelation 17:8
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8 [a](A)The beast that you saw existed once but now exists no longer. It will come up from the abyss and is headed for destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world shall be amazed when they see the beast, because it existed once but exists no longer, and yet it will come again.
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Revelation 20:12
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12 I saw the dead, the great and the lowly, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. Then another scroll was opened, the book of life.[a] The dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the scrolls.(A)
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Revelation 20:15
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15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the pool of fire.
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Revelation 21:27
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27 but nothing unclean will enter it, nor any[one] who does abominable things or tells lies. Only those will enter whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(A)
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