34 Bible Verses about Purgatory
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And in [addition to] all these [things], a great chasm has been established between us and you, so that those who want to cross over from here to you are not able [to do so], nor can they cross over from there to us.'
If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.
Then one of the seraphs flew to me, and in his hand [was] a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs.
the work of each one will become evident. For the day will reveal [it], because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the work of each one, of what sort it is.
For as you are going with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to come to a settlement with him on the way, so that he will not drag you to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff will throw you into prison.
[There will be] affliction and distress for every {human being} who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek,
[He] also [says], "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will never remember again."
and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous [people] made perfect,
And in Hades he lifted up his eyes [as he] was in torment [and] saw Abraham from a distance, and Lazarus {at his side}.
(Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who [was] from Gallim.)
And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light and there [is] no darkness in him at all.
"He himself [is] swift on [the] water's surface; their portion is cursed in the land. {No one turns toward the path of their vineyards}.
May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord in that day! And how much he served [me] in Ephesus you know very well.
[The] womb forgets him. [The] maggot feasts on him [until] he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a tree.
They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains, and they cling to the rock {without} refuge.
And the four living creatures, {each one} of them, had six wings apiece, full of eyes around and inside, and they do not have rest day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy [is] the Lord God All-Powerful, the one who was and the one who is and the one who is coming!"
to whom God wanted to make known what [is] the glorious wealth of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,
and the one who lives, and I was dead, and behold, I am living {forever and ever}, and I hold the keys of death and of Hades.
Drought and heat snatch away [the] snow waters, [like] Sheol [snatches away] those [who have] sinned.
They remove border [stones]; they seize flocks, and they pasture [them].
who saved us and called [us] with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace that was given to us in Christ Jesus {before time began},
{remembering the} sincere faith in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced that [is] in you also,
{I am thankful} to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience {as my ancestors did}, when {I remember you constantly} in my prayers night and day,
Therefore if you present 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 me his prisoner, but suffer along with [me] for the gospel, according to the power of God,
Hold fast to the pattern of sound words which you heard from me, in the faith and love [that are] in Christ Jesus.
"Those are among [the ones] rebelling [against the] light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.
and he himself is before all [things], and in him all [things] are held together,
From [the] city people groan, and [the] throat of [the] wounded cries for help; yet God does not {regard it as unseemly}.
"Why are not times kept by Shaddai, and [why] do not [those who] know him see his days?
After these [things] I looked, and behold, an open door in heaven, and the former voice that I had heard like a trumpet speaking with me was saying, "Come up here and I will show you [the things] which must take place after these [things]."