22 Bible Verses about Purgatory

And besides all this, there is a great chasm fixed between us and you, so that those wishing to pass from hence to you cannot, neither can they pass from thence to us.

if any one's work is consumed, he shall suffer loss, and he shall be saved, but so as by fire.

each one's work shall be manifest; for the day shall show it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the same fire shall try every man's work what it is.

For when you go with your adversary to a ruler, on the way labor to be released from him, lest he take you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison;

Affliction and distress [shall be] on every soul of man that does evil, both the Jew first and the Greek;

and their sins and transgressions will I remember no more.

and to the church of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge the God of all, and to spirits of the righteous made perfect,

and in hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham from afar, and Lazarus in his bosom.

And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare to you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness.

The Lord grant him to find mercy with the Lord in that day. And what services he performed at Ephesus, you know very well.

in which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison,

And the four cherubs had each six wings apiece. And they were full of eyes around and within, and they had no rest day nor night, saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty the Was and the Is and the Is to come.

to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

and the living, and I was dead, and behold, I am living forever and ever; and I have the keys of death and of hades.

who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace given us in Christ Jesus from eternity,

having a remembrance of the unfeigned faith in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that [it dwells] also in you.

I thank God, whom I serve from my ancestors with a pure conscience, that I mention you incessantly in my prayers night and day,

If, therefore, you offer your gift on the altar, and there remember that your brother has any thing against you,

Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but endure affliction with us in the gospel according to the power of God,

Retain the form of sound words which you heard from me in faith and the love in Christ Jesus.

and he is before all things, and in him all things consist,

AFTER this I saw, and behold, a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard was of a trumpet speaking to me, saying, Come up hither, and I will show you things that must occur hereafter.