Matthew 25:41

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

Them

Matthew 25:33

Depart

Luke 13:27

Ye cursed

Prepared

General references

Deuteronomy 11:28

Mark 11:21

Bible References

Them

and He will put the sheep on His right [the place of honor], and the goats on His left [the place of rejection].

Depart

And then I will declare to them publicly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me [you are banished from My presence], you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands].’

Depart from me, all you who do evil,
For the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.

Leave me, you evildoers,
That I may keep the commandments of my God [honoring and obeying them].

O that You would kill the wicked, O God;

Go away from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.

but He will say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from; depart from Me, all you evildoers!’

Ye cursed

‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved or cast image (idol), a repulsive thing to the Lord, the work of the hands of the artisan, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

“You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.

You rebuke the presumptuous and arrogant, the cursed ones,
Who wander from Your commandments.

Thus says the Lord,
“Cursed is the man who trusts in and relies on mankind,
Making [weak, faulty human] flesh his strength,
And whose mind and heart turn away from the Lord.

For all who depend on the Law [seeking justification and salvation by obedience to the Law and the observance of rituals] are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed (condemned to destruction) is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, so as to practice them.”

but if it persistently produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

Prepared

You are of your father the devil, and it is your will to practice the desires [which are characteristic] of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar and the father of lies and half-truths.

What if God, although willing to show His [terrible] wrath and to make His power known, has tolerated with great patience the objects of His wrath [which are] prepared for destruction?

For if God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but threw them into hell and sent them to pits of gloom to be kept [there] for judgment;

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are clearly identified: anyone who does not practice righteousness [who does not seek God’s will in thought, action, and purpose] is not of God, nor is the one who does not [unselfishly] love his [believing] brother.

And angels who did not keep their own designated place of power, but abandoned their proper dwelling place, [these] He has kept in eternal chains under [the thick gloom of utter] darkness for the judgment of the great day,

And war broke out in heaven, Michael [the archangel] and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought,

General references

and the curse, if you do not listen to and obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by following (acknowledging, worshiping) other gods which you have not known.

And remembering, Peter said to Him, “Rabbi (Master), look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered!”