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 12:2Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• John 5:29and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
• John 3:36One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
• 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.”
• Rev 20:15If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 2 Th 1:9who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
• Rom 5:21that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• John 3:15–16that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• 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.
• John 10:27–28My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
• 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;
• Mark 9:48–49‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
• Mark 9:43–45If 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,
• 1 Jn 2:25This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
• Gal 6:8For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
• Acts 24:15having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
• John 17:2even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
• 1 Jn 5:11–12The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• Luke 16:26Besides 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 no one may cross over from there to us.’
• Matt 19:29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
• Rev 14:10–11he 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.
• Rom 2:7–16to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• Ps 16:10–11For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
• Matt 13:43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
• Jude 1:21Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

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