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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Psalm 9:17

The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Proverbs 5:5

Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Proverbs 9:13, 15–18

The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing. / calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight. / But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Proverbs 15:24

The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Proverbs 23:13, 14

Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die. / Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Isaiah 30:33

For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Isaiah 33:14

The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 5:29, 30

If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. / And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 7:13, 14

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. / But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 8:11, 12

I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. / But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 10:28

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 13:30, 38–42, 49, 50

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’” / The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, / And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 16:18

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 18:8, 9, 34, 35

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire. / And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell. / In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 22:13

Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Matthew 25:28–30, 41, 46

Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten talents. / For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. / And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Mark 9:43–48

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire. / 0 / If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Luke 3:17

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Luke 16:23–26, 28

In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side. / So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.’ / But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Acts 1:25

to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked 2 Thessalonians 1:9

They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked 2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Jude 1:6–23

And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day. / In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire. / Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Revelation 2:11

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Revelation 9:1, 2

Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss. / The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Revelation 11:7

When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Revelation 14:10, 11

he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. / And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Revelation 19:20

But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Revelation 20:10, 15

And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. / And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

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Hell: The Future Home of the Wicked Revelation 21:8

But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

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