HELL

Passages on this topic · 145

• Genesis 37:35

  All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.

• Genesis 42:38

  He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

• Genesis 44:29

  If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’

• Genesis 44:31

  it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

• Deuteronomy 32:22

  For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

• 1 Samuel 2:6

  “Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

• 2 Samuel 22:6

  The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

• 1 Kings 2:6

  Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

• Job 7:9

  As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

• Job 11:8

  They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

• Job 14:13

  “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

• Job 17:13

  If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

• Job 21:13

  They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

• Job 24:19

  Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

• Job 26:6

  Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

• Psalms 6:5

  For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

• Psalms 9:17

  The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

• Psalms 16:10

  For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

• Psalms 18:5

  The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

• Psalms 30:3

  Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

• Psalms 31:17

  Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

• Psalms 49:14

  They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

• Psalms 49:15

  But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

• Psalms 55:15

  Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

• Psalms 86:13

  For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

• Psalms 88:3

  For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

• Psalms 89:48

  What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

• Psalms 116:3

  The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

• Psalms 139:8

  If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

• Psalms 141:7

  “As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

• Proverbs 1:12

  Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

• Proverbs 5:5

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

• Proverbs 7:27

  Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

• Proverbs 9:13

  The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and knows nothing.

• Proverbs 9:15

  To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways,

• Proverbs 9:16

  “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

• Proverbs 9:17

  “Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

• Proverbs 9:18

  But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

• Proverbs 15:11

  Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh — how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

• Proverbs 15:24

  The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

• Proverbs 23:13

  Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

• Proverbs 23:14

  Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

• Proverbs 27:20

  Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

• Proverbs 30:16

  Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’

• Ecclesiastes 8:6

  For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

• Ecclesiastes 9:10

  Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

• Isaiah 5:14

  Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

• Isaiah 14:9

  Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

• Isaiah 14:15

  Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

• Isaiah 28:15

  “Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”

• Isaiah 28:18

  Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

• Isaiah 30:33

  For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

• Isaiah 33:14

  The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

• Isaiah 57:9

  You went to the king with oil, and increased your perfumes, and sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol.

• Ezekiel 31:16

  I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

• Ezekiel 31:17

  They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations.

• Ezekiel 32:21

  The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the middle of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

• Ezekiel 32:27

  They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

• Hosea 13:14

  I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

• Amos 9:2

  Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

• Jonah 2:2

  He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

• Habakkuk 2:5

  Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

• Matthew 3:12

  His 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.”

• Matthew 5:22

  But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

• Matthew 5:29

  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.

• Matthew 5:30

  If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, 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.

• Matthew 7:13

  “Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

• Matthew 7:14

  How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

• Matthew 8:11

  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,

• Matthew 8:12

  but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

• Matthew 10:28

  Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

• Matthew 11:23

  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 today.

• Matthew 13:30

  Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

• Matthew 13:38

  the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

• Matthew 13:39

  The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

• Matthew 13:40

  As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.

• Matthew 13:41

  The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,

• Matthew 13:42

  and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

• Matthew 13:49

  So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

• Matthew 13:50

  and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”

• Matthew 16:18

  I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

• Matthew 18:8

  If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

• Matthew 18:9

  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.

• Matthew 18:34

  His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.

• Matthew 18:35

  So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

• Matthew 22:13

  Then 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.’

• Matthew 23:15

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

• Matthew 23:33

  You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

• Matthew 25:28

  Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.

• Matthew 25:29

  For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away.

• Matthew 25:30

  Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

• Matthew 25:41

  Then 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;

• Matthew 25:46

  These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

• Mark 9:43

  If 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,

• Mark 9:44

  ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’

• Mark 9:45

  If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched —

• Mark 9:46

  ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’

• Mark 9:47

  If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,

• Mark 9:48

  ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’

• Luke 3:17

  whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

• Luke 10:15

  You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

• Luke 12:5

  But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

• Luke 16:23

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

• Luke 16:24

  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.’

• Luke 16:25

  “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.

• Luke 16:26

  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 no one may cross over from there to us.’

• Luke 16:28

  for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’

• Acts 1:25

  to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

• Acts 2:27

  because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

• Acts 2:31

  he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:9

  who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

• James 3:6

  And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

• 2 Peter 1:6

  and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

• 2 Peter 1:7

  and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

• 2 Peter 1:8

  For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

• 2 Peter 1:9

  For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

• 2 Peter 1:10

  Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

• 2 Peter 1:11

  For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

• 2 Peter 1:12

  Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

• 2 Peter 1:13

  I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;

• 2 Peter 1:14

  knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

• 2 Peter 1:15

  Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

• 2 Peter 1:16

  For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

• 2 Peter 1:17

  For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

• 2 Peter 1:18

  We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.

• 2 Peter 1:19

  We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

• 2 Peter 1:20

  knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

• 2 Peter 1:21

  For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

• 2 Peter 1:22
• 2 Peter 1:23
• 2 Peter 2:4

  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;

• Revelation 1:18

  and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

• Revelation 2:11

  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.

• Revelation 6:8

  And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.

• Revelation 9:1

  The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.

• Revelation 9:2

  He 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.

• Revelation 11:7

  When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

• Revelation 14:10

  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.

• Revelation 14:11

  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.

• Revelation 19:20

  The 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.

• Revelation 20:10

  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.

• Revelation 20:13

  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.

• Revelation 20:14

  Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

• Revelation 20:15

  If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

• Revelation 21:8

  But 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.”