22 Bible Verses about Purgatory

"But besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who want to cross from here to you cannot, nor can those who would cross from you to us.'

If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames.

The Day will disclose it, for it dawns in fire, and the fire will test each man's work, of what quality it is.

"For as you go before the magistrate with your opponent do your utmost to get quit of him, lest he drag you before the judge, and the judge delivers you over to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison.

Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practices evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile;

Then he adds, And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

to the festal assemblage and church of the firstborn, registered in heaven, to a Judge who is God of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

"The rich man also died, and was buried. And as he was tormented in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.

This, then, is the message that we have heard from him, and are announcing to you, that God is light, and no darkness what ever is in him.

The Lord grant him to find mercy form the Lord in that Day! And you know better than I how many services he rendered in Ephesus.

(It was in spirit that he went and preached the Word to the spirits who were in prison,

And the four Living Creatures, each one with six wings, are full of eyes round about and within; day and night they are chanting ceaselessly. "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty. Who was, and who is, and who is to come."

To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory."

I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore; and hold the keys of death and of Hades.

He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not dealing with us according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.

I have been reminded of that sincere faith which is in your heart; which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and, I am fully persuaded, dwells in you also.

I give thanks to God whom I worship with a pure conscience as my fathers did, when I remember you unceasingly in my prayers.

"If therefore when you are offering your gift upon the altar, and there remember that your brother has a grievance against you,

Do not then be ashamed to bear witness for our Lord, nor for me, his prisoner. Nay, join with me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.

Hold fast the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

and HE IS before all, and in him all things subsist.

After this, in my vision, I saw a door opened in heaven! And the first voice that I heard speaking with me was like a trumpet, saying, "Come up hither, and I will show you the things that must come to pass hereafter."