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Matthew 25:46 ESV / 943 helpful votes
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
John 3:16 ESV / 903 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 10:28 ESV / 703 helpful votes
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 686 helpful votes
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
Luke 23:43 ESV / 651 helpful votes
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 549 helpful votes
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
John 14:2 ESV / 481 helpful votes
In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
John 11:25-26 ESV / 470 helpful votes
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:25 ESV / 418 helpful votes
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
Matthew 25:41 ESV / 389 helpful votes
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 388 helpful votes
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. …
Revelation 21:4 ESV / 373 helpful votes
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 372 helpful votes
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Revelation 6:9-11 ESV / 338 helpful votes
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Revelation 20:6 ESV / 333 helpful votes
Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 ESV / 329 helpful votes
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.
John 14:1-3 ESV / 310 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
2 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 308 helpful votes
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Revelation 1:18 ESV / 294 helpful votes
And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 284 helpful votes
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 276 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Psalm 23:4 ESV / 272 helpful votes
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Revelation 2:11 ESV / 263 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.’
Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 263 helpful votes
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
John 5:24 ESV / 256 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Genesis 2:7 ESV / 255 helpful votes
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Psalm 146:4 ESV / 247 helpful votes
When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.
Psalm 115:17 ESV / 246 helpful votes
The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence.
John 11:26 ESV / 244 helpful votes
And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
1 Corinthians 15:51 ESV / 242 helpful votes
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
John 14:1-4 ESV / 234 helpful votes
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.”
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 230 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 215 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
Philippians 3:20 ESV / 213 helpful votes
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Corinthians 5:1-8 ESV / 203 helpful votes
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. …
John 14:6 ESV / 203 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 203 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
Daniel 12:2 ESV / 202 helpful votes
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Philippians 1:21 ESV / 191 helpful votes
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Romans 14:8 ESV / 189 helpful votes
For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
Luke 20:37-38 ESV / 188 helpful votes
But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.”
1 Corinthians 15:20 ESV / 187 helpful votes
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 186 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Job 14:14 ESV / 186 helpful votes
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
Romans 10:4 ESV / 185 helpful votes
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Psalm 6:5 ESV / 184 helpful votes
For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?
Matthew 8:12 ESV / 183 helpful votes
While the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
John 5:28-29 ESV / 182 helpful votes
Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Revelation 14:13 ESV / 180 helpful votes
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 180 helpful votes
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—
Luke 16:23 ESV / 178 helpful votes
And in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
Revelation 14:11 ESV / 177 helpful votes
And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”
Psalm 139:8 ESV / 175 helpful votes
If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
Luke 16:28 ESV / 170 helpful votes
For I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’
1 Samuel 28:11 ESV / 170 helpful votes
Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up for you?” He said, “Bring up Samuel for me.”
Romans 8:18 ESV / 169 helpful votes
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 ESV / 167 helpful votes
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Luke 16:22-23 ESV / 166 helpful votes
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
Exodus 3:14 ESV / 166 helpful votes
God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
James 2:26 ESV / 163 helpful votes
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
2 Corinthians 6:2 ESV / 156 helpful votes
For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 ESV / 156 helpful votes
So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:53 ESV / 149 helpful votes
For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
1 Corinthians 15:42-44 ESV / 149 helpful votes
So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 143 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
John 3:18 ESV / 137 helpful votes
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 133 helpful votes
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. …
Luke 16:22 ESV / 132 helpful votes
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried,
Matthew 8:11-12 ESV / 131 helpful votes
I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Revelation 21:3 ESV / 130 helpful votes
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
Isaiah 26:19 ESV / 129 helpful votes
Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.
Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 ESV / 129 helpful votes
For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.
Romans 5:12 ESV / 128 helpful votes
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
Genesis 5:24 ESV / 128 helpful votes
Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
Genesis 3:19 ESV / 127 helpful votes
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Job 19:25-27 ESV / 125 helpful votes
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
Isaiah 8:19 ESV / 123 helpful votes
And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
1 Kings 2:10 ESV / 123 helpful votes
Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 122 helpful votes
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
1 Corinthians 15:26 ESV / 122 helpful votes
The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 ESV / 121 helpful votes
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:51-57 ESV / 121 helpful votes
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” …
Revelation 1:6 ESV / 120 helpful votes
And made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 1:2 ESV / 120 helpful votes
Who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.
Romans 8:13 ESV / 120 helpful votes
For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Luke 16:25 ESV / 120 helpful votes
But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
Genesis 35:18 ESV / 120 helpful votes
And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
Revelation 20:14 ESV / 119 helpful votes
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
1 John 5:13 ESV / 119 helpful votes
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 119 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
John 20:31 ESV / 119 helpful votes
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Isaiah 14:9-11 ESV / 119 helpful votes
Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations. All of them will answer and say to you: ‘You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!’ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers.
Deuteronomy 32:50 ESV / 118 helpful votes
And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,
Deuteronomy 32:22 ESV / 118 helpful votes
For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Revelation 1:12 ESV / 117 helpful votes
Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands,
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 117 helpful votes
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Isaiah 11:6-9 ESV / 113 helpful votes
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 104 helpful votes
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ …
1 Corinthians 15:35-54 ESV / 102 helpful votes
But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. …
2 Corinthians 5:6 ESV / 72 helpful votes
So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
