And the angels will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Parallel translations
- WEB and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
- KJV And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
- BSB And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- NKJV and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
- NASB and they will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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Quick answer
The wicked are cast into the furnace of fire, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. Final judgment involves real and grievous loss for the unrepentant.
Overview
Jesus pictures the destiny of the wicked as a fiery furnace marked by weeping and gnashing of teeth, vivid imagery for the anguish of judgment. While faithful Christians have understood the precise nature of these images variously, all affirm a genuine and dreadful separation from God. The warning is meant to stir sober reflection and turn hearers to Christ for refuge.
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- Matt 13:50and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”
- Luke 16:23–24In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
- Rev 20:14–15Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
- Rev 20:10The 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.
- Matt 8:12but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
- Rev 19:20The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
- Ps 21:9You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
- Mark 9:43–49If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
- Rev 14:10he 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.
- Dan 3:6and whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall the same hour be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace.
- Matt 22:13Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’
- Matt 3:12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
- Dan 3:15–17Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good: but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
- Rev 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
- Dan 3:21–22Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
- Luke 13:28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.
- Matt 25:41Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
- Rev 9:2He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.
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