34 Bible Verses about Purgatory

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.'

If someone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

But then one of the seraphs flew toward me. In his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs.

each builder's work will be plainly seen, for the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what kind of work each has done.

As you are going with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, so that he will not drag you before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,

then he says, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer."

and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,

And in hell, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side.

(Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Paltiel son of Laish, who was from Gallim.)

Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

"You say, 'He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day! And you know very well all the ways he served me in Ephesus.

The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison,

They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.

Each one of the four living creatures had six wings and was full of eyes all around and inside. They never rest day or night, saying: "Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God, the All-Powerful, Who was and who is, and who is still to come!"

God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive -- forever and ever -- and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!

The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; so the grave takes away those who have sinned.

Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

I recall your sincere faith that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure is in you.

I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.

So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, a prisoner for his sake, but by God's power accept your share of suffering for the gospel.

Hold to the standard of sound words that you heard from me and do so with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

He himself is before all things and all things are held together in him.

From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.

"Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?

And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, 'No eye can see me,' and covers his face with a mask.

After these things I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said: "Come up here so that I can show you what must happen after these things."

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.