22 Bible Verses about Purgatory
Most Relevant Verses
Besides there is a great chasm set between you and us, so that those who want to go over from this side to you cannot, and they cannot cross from your side to us.'
If a man's work is burned up, he must stand the loss, though he himself will be saved, but as one who has passed through the fire.
the quality of everyone's work will appear, for the Day will show it. For the Day will break in fire, and the fire will test the quality of everyone's work.
For when you are going before the magistrate with your opponent, do your best on the way to get rid of him, or he may hurry you off to the judge and the judge hand you over to the constable and the constable throw you into prison.
crushing distress and anguish, every human soul of them that actually does what is wrong??he Jew first, and the Greek also;
to the solemn gathering of all God's elder sons, enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men now at last enjoying the fulfilment of their hopes,
And in Hades he looked up, tormented as he was, and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus beside him.
This is the message that we heard from him and announce to you: God is light; there is no darkness in him at all.
The Lord grant that he may be shown mercy by the Lord on that Day! And you know well enough how he helped me at Ephesus.
In it Enoch went and preached even to those spirits that were in prison,
The four animals have each of them six wings, and they are covered with eyes all over and underneath their wings. And day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and is and is coming."
to whom God has chosen to make known among the heathen how glorious this mystery of Christ in you, the promise of glorification, really is.
the living one. I was dead, yet here I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys of death and the underworld.
He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,
of being reminded of your genuine faith, a faith that was seen first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice; I am sure it is in you also.
I thank God, whom I, like my forefathers, worship with a clear conscience, when I remember you, as I constantly do, in my prayers.
So when you are presenting your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother has any grievance against you,
So you must not be ashamed to testify to our Lord, nor be ashamed of me who am in prison for his sake, but join with me in suffering for the good news, through the power of God.
As your example in wholesome instruction, keep before you what you learned from me, in the faith and love that come through union with Christ Jesus.
Afterward I had another vision: There was a door standing open in the heavens and the first voice like a trumpet that I had heard speak to me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place."
