36 Bible Verses about Hell, As Incentive To Action

Enter ye in through the strait gate, for broad the gate and spacious the way leading to destruction, and many are they coming in through it. For strait the gate and afflicted the way leading into life, and few are they finding it.

I called to witness against you this day the heavens and the earth, the life and the death I gave before thee, the blessing and the curse: and choose upon life, so that thou shalt live, thou and thy seed:

And to this people thou shalt say, Thus said Jehovah, Behold me giving before your face the way of life and the way of death.

And a certain said to him, Lord, if few saved? And he said to them, Strive earnestly to enter through the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able. From the time when the master of the house should rise up, and shut the door, and ye begin to stand without, and knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us: and having answered, he will say to you, I know not whence ye are:

For what is a man profited, if he should gain the whole world, and injure his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and injure his soul

For what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost himself, or having been damaged?

And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?

A certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, being daily splendidly gladdened: And there was a certain beggar, Lazarus by name, who was cast at his gate, having been wounded, And eagerly desirous to be fed from crumbs falling from the rich one's table: but also the dogs, coming, licked off his wounds.read more.
And it was, the beggar died, and was carried by messengers into Abraham's bosom: and the rich one died also, and was buried; And in hades, having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham from far off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he having called out, said, Father Abraham, pity me, and send Lazarus, that he might dip his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus likewise evil things: and now here is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has indicated to you to flee from the wrath about to come? Do ye therefore fruit worthy of repentance. And think not to say in yourselves we have Abraham a father; for I say to you that God can of these stones raise up children to Abraham.read more.
And now also the axe lies at the root of the trees; therefore every one not making good fruit is cut off and cast into fire.

Then said he to the crowds coming out to he immersed by him, Generation of vipers, who indicated to you to flee from the anger about to come Do ye therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to, say in yourselves, We have a father A braham : for I say to you, That God is able to raise children to Abraham of these stones. And also the axe is already laid at the root of the trees: therefore every tree not making good fruit is cut down, and cast into fire.

Not every one saying to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens; but he doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have we cast out evil spirits, and in thy name done many powers? And then shall I confess to them that I never knew you. Go away from me, ye working iniqnity.

There is a way straight before man, and its latter state the ways of death.

For also the prophets, also the priests were polluted; also in my house I found their evil, says Jehovah. For this their way shall be to them as slippery places in darkness: they shall be thrust away and they fell in it; for I will bring evil upon them, the year of their reviewing, says Jehovah.

Then will ye begin to say, We ate and drank before thee, and thou didst teach in our streets. And he will say, I say to you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workmen of iniquity. Weeping shall be there and gnashing of teeth, when ye see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you cast without.

If any remain not in me, he was cast forth as the branch, and was dried up; and they gather them together, and cast into the fire, and they are burned.

And fear not from those killing the body, and not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him able to destroy also soul and body in hell.

And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these not having anything remaining to do. And I will shew you whom ye should fear: Fear him having power, after killing, to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear him.

Watch for yourselves lest ye shall forget the covenant of Jehovah your God which he cut out with you, and ye make to you any carved thing, the appearance of any thing which Jehovah thy God commanded thee. For Jehovah thy God he is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Ye shall not say, A conspiracy to all whom this people shall say a conspiracy; and ye shall not fear their fear, and ye shall not be afraid. Jehovah of armies, him shall ye consecrate; and he your fear, and he your terror.

And if thine eye give thee cause of offence, take it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members be destroyed, and not thy whole body be cast into hell. And if thy right hand give thee cause of offence, cut it off, and cast from thee; for it is profitable to thee, that one of thy members should be destroyed; and not thy whole body should be cast into hell.

And if thy hand or thy foot give thee cause of offence, cut them off, and cast from thee: it is good for thee to come into life lame or maimed, than having two hands or two feet to be cast into eternal fire. And if thine eye give thee cause of offence, take it out, and east from thee: it is good for thee, one-eyed, to enter into life, than having two eyes to be cast into a hell of fire.

And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is good for thee rather to enter into life maimed, than having two hands, to go away into hell, into inextinguishable fire: Where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life lame, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into inextinguishable fire:read more.
And if thine eye offend thee, cast it out: it is good for thee, one eyed, to come into the kingdom of God, than having two eyes to be cast into a hell of fire:

For we sinning voluntarily after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there is left no more a sacrifice for sins, But a certain terrible expectation of judgment and jealousy of fire, being about to devour the adversaries.

And the soul which shall do with a high hand, from the native, and from the stranger, it reproaches Jehovah, and that soul was cut off from the midst of its people.

For impossible for them once enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and having partaken of the Holy Spirit, And tasted of the good word of God, and powers of the life about to be, And having fallen, again to renew to repentance; crucifying to themselves the Son of God, and exposing to ignominy.

For if having escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again entangling with these, they be conquered, the last things have been to them worse than the first.

Then said the king to his servants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him away, and cast ye him into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

And he shall cut him in two equal parts, and he shall set his portion with the hypocrites: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

And cast ye the useless servant into darkness without; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

Then began he to blame the cities in which were his greatest powers, because they repented not. Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! for if in Tyre and Sidon had been the powers being in you, long since had they repented in sackcloth and ashes. But I say to you, To Tyre and Sidon shall it be more supportable in the day of judgment, than to you.read more.
And thou, Capernaum, lifted up even to heaven, thou shalt he brought down to hades: for if in the people of Sodom had been the powers being in thee, they had remained till this day. But I say to you, That to the land of Sodom it shall be more supportable in the day of judgment, than to you.

Woe to thee Chorazin! woe to thee Bethsaida! for if in Tyre and Sidon were the powers having been in you, long since had they changed the mind, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But for Tyre and Sidon shall it be more supportable in judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaurn, indeed even lifted up to heaven, shalt be cast down to hades.

Serpents, generations of vipers, how would ye flee from the judgment of hell?

Then shall he say to them from the left, Go away from me, the cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his messengers: For I was hungry, and ye gave me not to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger and ye brought me not in; naked, and ye put not around me; sick, and in prison, and ye took not a view of me.read more.
Then shall they answer him, they also saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and attended not to thee? Then shall he answer them saying, Inasmuch as ye did not to one of the least of these, ye did not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: and the just into eternal life.

But I say to you, That every one becoming angry with his brother, shall be subject to judgment: and whoever should say to his brother, Raca, should be, subject to the council: and whoever should say, O foolish, shall be subject to a hell of fire.

(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.