Luke 16:23

World English Bible (2000)

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

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  • Ps 9:17 : 17 The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
  • Luke 16:28 : 28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won't also come into this place of torment.'
  • 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
  • Rev 14:10-11 : 10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. 11 The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
  • Isa 14:9 : 9 Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
  • Isa 14:15 : 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
  • Matt 5:22 : 22 But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca!' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
  • Matt 5:29 : 29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
  • Matt 8:11-12 : 11 I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven, 12 but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
  • Matt 18:9 : 9 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
  • Matt 23:33 : 33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
  • Luke 8:28 : 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't 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, and yourselves being thrown outside. 29 They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in the Kingdom of God.
  • Matt 8:29 : 29 Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
  • Matt 11:23 : 23 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until this day.
  • Ps 16:10 : 10 For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
  • Ps 49:15 : 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
  • Prov 5:5 : 5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
  • Prov 7:27 : 27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
  • Prov 9:18 : 18 But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
  • Prov 15:24 : 24 The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
  • Rev 20:10 : 10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
  • Rev 20:13-14 : 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
  • 1 Cor 15:55 : 55 "Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?"

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    19 "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

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    24 He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'

    25 "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

    26 Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'

    27 "He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;

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    29 "But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.'

    30 "He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'

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