Luke 16:23

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And in Hades, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side.

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  • Ps 9:17 : 17 The wicked are turned back and sent to Sheol; this is the destiny of all the nations that ignore God,
  • Luke 16:28 : 28 (for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don’t come into this place of torment.’
  • 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,
  • Rev 14:10-11 : 10 that person will also drink of the wine of God’s anger that has been mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tortured with fire and sulfur in front of the holy angels and in front of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke from their torture will go up forever and ever, and those who worship the beast and his image will have no rest day or night, along with anyone who receives the mark of his name.”
  • Isa 14:9 : 9 Sheol below is stirred up about you, ready to meet you when you arrive. It rouses the spirits of the dead for you, all the former leaders of the earth; it makes all the former kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
  • Isa 14:15 : 15 But you were brought down to Sheol, to the remote slopes of the Pit.
  • Matt 5:22 : 22 But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults a brother will be brought before the council, and whoever says‘Fool’ will be sent to fiery hell.
  • Matt 5:29 : 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.
  • Matt 8:11-12 : 11 I tell you, many will come from the east and west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, 12 but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
  • Matt 18:9 : 9 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.
  • Matt 23:33 : 33 You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
  • Luke 8:28 : 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and shouted with a loud voice,“Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I beg you, do not torment me!”
  • Luke 13:28-29 : 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves thrown out. 29 Then people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and take their places at the banquet table in the kingdom of God.
  • Matt 8:29 : 29 They cried out,“Son of God, leave us alone! Have you come here to torment us before the time?”
  • Matt 11:23 : 23 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades! For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.
  • Ps 16:10 : 10 You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.
  • Ps 49:15 : 15 But God will rescue my life from the power of Sheol; certainly he will pull me to safety.(Selah)
  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For you will extend your great loyal love to me, and will deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.
  • Prov 5:5 : 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
  • Prov 7:27 : 27 Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But they do not realize that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave.
  • Prov 15:24 : 24 The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
  • Rev 20:10 : 10 And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are too, and they will be tormented there day and night forever and ever.
  • Rev 20:13-14 : 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each one was judged according to his deeds. 14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death– the lake of fire.
  • 1 Cor 15:55 : 55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”

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    25But Abraham said,‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

    26Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’

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