34 Bible Verses about Purgatory
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And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.'
If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.
There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
then he adds, "I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more."
and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
"You say, 'Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.
may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that Day!--and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus.
The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.'
They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!"
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.
who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God,
Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
"There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.
From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.
"Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?
The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye will see me'; and he veils his face.
After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this."
(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)
