12 Bible Verses about Eternal Death
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Have no fear of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul: rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
If your hand or your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off and throw it away; better be maimed or crippled and get into Life, than keep both feet or hands and be thrown into the everlasting fire.
Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels! For I was hungry but you never fed me, I was thirsty but you never gave me drink, I was a stranger but you never entertained me, I was unclothed but you never clothed me, I was ill and in prison but you never looked after me.'read more.
Then they will answer too, 'Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or unclothed or ill or in prison, and did not minister to you?' Then he will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did not do it to one of these, even the least of them, you did not do it to me.'
If your hand is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better be maimed and get into Life, than keep your two hands and go to Gehenna, to the fire that is never quenched. --
His winnowing-fan is in his hand to purge his threshing-floor, to gather the wheat into his granary and burn the straw with fire unquenchable."
and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment.
For many ??as I have often told you and tell you now with tears ??many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!
and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus, men who will pay the penalty of being destroyed eternally from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Then shall the Lawless One be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his lips and quell by his appearing and arrival ??9 that One whose arrival is due to Satan's activity, with the full power, the miracles and portents, of falsehood,
with instruction about ablutions and the laying on of hands, about the resurrection of the dead and eternal punishment.
Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy, on the evidence of two or of three witnesses. How much heavier, do you suppose, will be the punishment assigned to him who has spurned the Son of God, who has profaned the covenant-blood with which he was sanctified, who has insulted the Spirit of grace? We know who said, Vengeance is mine, I will exact a requital: and again, The Lord will pass sentence on his people.read more.
It is an awful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds ??their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
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eternal Death » Shall be inflicted by Christ
Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
When the Son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory,
and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus,
eternal Death » The necessary consequence of sin
If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.
Do you not know you are the servants of the master you obey, of the master to whom you yield yourselves obedient, whether it is Sin, whose service ends in death, or Obedience, whose service ends in righteousness?
eternal Death » Described as » A lake of fire
But the Beast was seized, together with the false Prophet who had performed in his presence the miracles by means of which he seduced those who received the mark of the Beast and worshipped his statue; both of them were flung alive into the lake of fire that blazes with brimstone,
but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds ??their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
eternal Death » Is called » Destruction
What if God, though desirous to display his anger and show his might, has tolerated most patiently the objects of his anger, ripe and ready to be destroyed?
men who will pay the penalty of being destroyed eternally from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
eternal Death » Saints shall escape
Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection; over such the second death has no power, they shall be priests of God and the Christ, and reign along with him during the thousand years.
Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror shall not be injured by the second death.'
eternal Death » Christ, the only way of escape from
There is no salvation by anyone else, nor even a second Name under heaven appointed for us men and our salvation."
For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.
eternal Death » The portion of the wicked
Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
So they shall depart to eternal punishment, and the just to eternal life."
eternal Death » God alone can inflict
Have no fear of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul: rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
follow 2:13] Do not defame one another, brothers; he who defames or judges his brother defames and judges the Law; and if you judge the Law, you pass sentence on it instead of obeying it.
eternal Death » The way to, described
Enter by the narrow gate: for [the gate] is broad and the road is wide that leads to destruction, and many enter that way.
eternal Death » Is called » The wrath to come
and to wait for the coming of his Son from heaven ??the Son whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who rescues us from the Wrath to come.
eternal Death » Described as » Banishment from God
men who will pay the penalty of being destroyed eternally from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
eternal Death » Is called » The second death
Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror shall not be injured by the second death.'
eternal Death » Self-righteousness leads to
eternal Death » Described as » Society with the devil, &c
Then he will say to those on the left, 'Begone from me, you accursed ones, to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
eternal Death » Described as » outer darkness,
Throw the good-for-nothing servant into the darkness outside; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.
eternal Death » Is called » Everlasting punishment
So they shall depart to eternal punishment, and the just to eternal life."
eternal Death » Is called » Damnation of hell
eternal Death » Illustrated
And as he was being tortured in Hades he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus in his bosom; so he called out, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me, send Lazarus to dip his fingertip in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in these flames.' But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish. read more.
Besides all that, a great gulf yawns between us and you, to keep back those who want to cross from us to you and also those who want to pass from you to us.'
eternal Death » Described as » A mist of darkness for ever
These people are waterless fountains and mists driven by a squall, for whom the nether gloom of darkness is reserved.
eternal Death » Described as » Indignation, wrath, &c
but anger and wrath to those who are wilful, who disobey the Truth and obey wickedness ??9 anguish and calamity for every human soul that perpetrates evil, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well,
eternal Death » Is called » Perishing
But those people! ??like irrational animals, creatures of mere instinct, born for capture and corruption, they scoff at what they are ignorant of; and like animals they will suffer corruption and ruin,
eternal Death » Is called » A resurrection to shame, &c
eternal Death » The wages of sin
Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.
eternal Death » Strive to preserve others from
understand that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his way saves his soul from death and hides a host of sins.
eternal Death » Described as » The worm that dies not
eternal Death » Is called » A resurrection to damnation
and come out, the doers of good to be raised to life, ill-doers to be raised for the sentence of judgment.
Fall of man » Punishment consequent upon » eternal Death
Well then, as one man's trespass issued in doom for all, so one man's act of redress issues in acquittal and life for all.
Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Salvation » Is deliverance from » eternal Death
For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing. God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.