The word "glory" carries with it the connotation of praise and worship. In the Bible, it also refers to the expression of God. In other words, wherever God's glory is, that is where God is expressed and can be seen. Our God is a God of glory—He is a God who desires to express Himself, but He wants to be seen through man. This is the reason why He created us and this is the reason why He died for us. He will bring us all the way into His glory!
Curious? Then keep reading. This is the Glory Story and you and I, along with all the other believers, are the main characters.
Curious? Then keep reading. This is the Glory Story and you and I, along with all the other believers, are the main characters.
God is a God of glory, a God who wants to be expressed.
...The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
–Acts 7:2b
God's goal or purpose is to is that we would fully express Him, and so He predestinated us unto glory.
But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom which has been hidden, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,
–1 Corinthians 2:7
To accomplish this purpose, God created us a vessels prepared to express Him.
In order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He had before prepared unto glory,
–Romans 9:23
But sin came in, causing us to fall short of the standard of God's glory and were no longer able to express Him adequately.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
–Romans 3:23
So Christ came to redeem us, fully meeting the requirements of God's glory.
Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
Whom God set forth as a propitiation place through faith in His blood, for the demonstrating of His righteousness, in that in His forbearance God passed over the sins that had previously occurred,
–Romans 3:24-25
And above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the propitiation place...
–Hebrews 9:5a
Jesus Christ was the first genuine man to fully express God and be brought into glory. As such, He is now the Author, Captain, and Pioneer, leading us into glory.
For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in leading many sons into glory, to make the Author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
–Hebrews 2:10
Through the gospel of the glory of Christ, God has called us into His eternal glory.
In whom the god of this age has blinded the thoughts of the unbelievers that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine on them.
–2 Corinthians 4:4
But the God of all grace, He who has called you into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus...
–2 Peter 5:10a
...God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
–1 Thessalonians 2:12b
Now that we've believed and received Christ, He is in us as our hope of glory.
...Christ in you, the hope of glory,
–Colossians 1:27b
When Christ our life is manifested, then you also will be manifested with Him in glory.
–Colossians 3:4
We are being transformed into the Lord's image from one degree of glory to a higher degree of glory.
But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.
–2 Corinthians 3:18
We will even enter into the highest stage of oneness—the oneness in the divine glory.
And the glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one;
–John 17:22
In the church God is praised, worshipped, and, most importantly, expressed.
To Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all the generations forever and ever. Amen.
–Ephesians 3:21
There will be the glory of God in the kingdom.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
–Matthew 6:13b
We will be glorified with Christ to bear the glory of God for God's expression in the New Jerusalem.
And if children, heirs also; on the one hand, heirs of God; on the other, joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him that we may also be glorified with Him.
–Romans 8:17
And those whom He predestinated, these He also called; and those whom He called, these He also justified; and those whom He justified, these He also glorified.
–Romans 8:30
And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
Having the glory of God....
–Revelation 21:10-11a
–Points taken from outline 8, "Having the Glory of God" of the Spring 2014 International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones. General Subject: Aspects of the Christian Life and Church Life Seen in the New Jerusalem