34 Bible Verses about Purgatory
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And besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those here who want to cross over to you are not able, nor may those go across from there to us.
If any man's work will be burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
each man's work will become manifest. For the day will make it known, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire will test each man's work of what kind it is.
For when thou go with thine opponent to the magistrate on the way give effort to be delivered from him, lest he may drag thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and the officer would cast thee into prison.
pressure and restriction, upon every soul of man who produces evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek,
and, Their sins and their lawlessness I will, no, not further remember.
to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,
And having lifted up his eyes in Hades, being in torments, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus by his bosom.
Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
And this is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn into the way of the vineyards.
(may the Lord grant him to find mercy from Lord in that day), and in how many things he ministered at Ephesus, thou know very well.
The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
And the four beings, one by one, each having six wings, are full of eyes around and inside. And they have no cessation day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord, the Almighty God, he was, and who is, and who is coming.
To whom God wanted to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
and he who lives. And I became dead, and behold, I am living into the ages of the ages. Truly. And I have the keys of death and of Hades.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters, [and] Sheol [those who] have sinned.
There are [men] who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them.
Who saved us and who called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal.
taking memory of the non-hypocritical faith in thee, which first dwelt in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that is in thee also.
I have gratitude to God whom I serve from the forefathers in a pure conscience, as I have unceasing remembrance about thee in my supplications, night and day
If therefore thou should bring thy gift to the altar, and remember there that thy brother has anything against thee,
Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner, but suffer together with the good-news according to the power of God.
Hold the pattern of sound words that thou heard from me, in faith and love in Christ Jesus.
These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.
From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out. Yet God does not regard the folly.
Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do those who know him not see his days?
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me. And he disguises his face.
After these things I looked, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard like a trumpet, speaking with me, saying, Come up here, and I will show thee what must happen after these things.
There are [men] who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,