Matthew 25:46
And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
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- Dan 12:2 : 2 Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake– some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.
- John 3:36 : 36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.
- John 5:29 : 29 and will come out– the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.
- Rom 6:23 : 23 For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- John 3:15-16 : 15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” 16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
- Matt 25:41 : 41 “Then he will say to those on his left,‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
- 2 Thess 1:9 : 9 They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,
- Rev 20:15 : 15 If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.
- Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”
- Rom 5:21 : 21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- 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.
- Mark 9:43-45 : 43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire. 45 If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.
- Mark 9:48-49 : 48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched. 49 Everyone will be salted with fire.
- Acts 24:15 : 15 I have a hope in God(a hope that these men themselves accept too) that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
- Rom 2:7-9 : 7 eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality, 8 but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness. 9 There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God. 12 For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous. 14 For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves. 15 They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them, 16 on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.
- Gal 6:8 : 8 because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
- John 10:27-28 : 27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.
- 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.”
- 1 John 2:25 : 25 Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.
- 1 John 5:11-12 : 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life.
- Jude 1:21 : 21 maintain yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.
- John 17:2 : 2 just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.
- Luke 16:26 : 26 Besides 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.’
- Ps 16:10-11 : 10 You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit. 11 You lead me in the path of life; I experience absolute joy in your presence; you always give me sheer delight.
- Matt 13:43 : 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!
- Matt 19:29 : 29 And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
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40 And the king will answer them,‘I tell you the truth, just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did it for me.’
41 “Then he will say to those on his left,‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink.
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48 When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.
49 It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous
50 and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Matt 25:44-452 verses77%
44 Then they too will answer,‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not give you whatever you needed?’
45 Then he will answer them,‘I tell you the truth, just as you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for me.’
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29 and will come out– the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.
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42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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30 And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
31 The Judgment“When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
32 All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34 Then the king will say to those on his right,‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
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51 and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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13 Then the king said to his attendants,‘Tie him up hand and foot and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!’
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36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.
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12 but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
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9 They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,
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15 If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.
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29 The godly will possess the land and will dwell in it permanently.
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48 where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.
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32 An evil person will be thrown down through his wickedness, but a righteous person takes refuge in his integrity.
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6 He will reward each one according to his works:
7 eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,
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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.
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16 The reward which the righteous receive is life; the recompense which the wicked receive is judgment.
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31 If the righteous are recompensed on earth, how much more the wicked sinner!
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26 When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.
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18 And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the ungodly and sinners?
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30 The righteous will never be moved, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.
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21 Evil people self-destruct; those who hate the godly are punished.
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10 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.
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19 True righteousness leads to life, but the one who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.
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23 For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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18 When a righteous man turns from his godliness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
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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.
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46 then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee, and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the unfaithful.
47 That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.
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4 Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
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43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire.
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38 Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; evil men have no future.
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28 In the path of righteousness there is life, but another path leads to death.
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10 Tell the innocent it will go well with them, for they will be rewarded for what they have done.
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21 Calamity pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.
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6 Certainly the LORD guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.
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25 But 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.