Matthew 25:46

The unrighteous go to eternal punishment, the righteous to eternal life. The judgment results in two everlasting destinies.

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• Dan 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
• John 5:29and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
• John 3:36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
• Rev 21:8But 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.”
• Rev 20:15And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 2 Th 1:9They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
• Rom 5:21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• John 3:15–16that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
• Rev 20:10And 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.
• John 10:27–28My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
• Matt 25:41Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
• Mark 9:48–49where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’
• Mark 9:43–45If 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.
• 1 Jn 2:25And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
• Gal 6:8The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
• Acts 24:15and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
• John 17:2For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
• 1 Jn 5:11–12And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
• Luke 16:26And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us.’
• Matt 19:29And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
• Rev 14:10–11he 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.
• Rom 2:7–16To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
• Ps 16:10–11For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
• Matt 13:43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
• Jude 1:21keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.

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