Stay or Leave
Once a Mormon realizes that he has been lied to by Joseph Smith and that his divine authority is a myth propagated by the current top 15 leaders the painful journey of separating truth from error and establishing sustainable personal beliefs begins. And this leads him to the painful cross roads. Stay or Leave ? If he leaves the Mormon fold his salvation suddenly comes in question and the belief in heaven and hell needs to be re-examined. Returning to basic Christianity is not easy as its teachings are fragmented. Most evangelical born again Christians suggest that Mormons have followed a false Christ (Prophet) and must be re-born or risk damnation. As a Mormon I felt however that I have followed the true Christ, but had a contaminated concept of him and needed only to repent of all false doctrines taught by the Mormon Church and renounce my masonic temple covenants with the Mormon Church.
Looking a bit deeper into Heaven and Hell it becomes clear that late biblical Judaism was in flux and this has continued into the time of Jesus who has set a much more defining and punishing concept of Hell in scripture. This concept was adopted in the Book of Mormon, but later softened by Joseph Smith. His latest revision has lasted into modern Mormonism.
Extracted from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) teach that hell is a state between death and resurrection, in which those spirits who didn't repent while on earth must suffer for their own sins (Doctrine and Covenants 19:15-17[45]). In this sense, Mormons regard hell as a temporary state that ends for a spirit once they have "paid the uttermost farthing" (Matt 5:26) for the sins they committed. As David wrote, "thou wilt not leave my soul in hell" (Psalms 16:10, 86:13, Acts 2:27). This punishment can be characterized as a mental anguish for sins committed, which Mormons believe Christ took upon himself for all mankind while in the Garden of Gethsemane--"that they may not suffer if they would repent." (Doctrine and Covenants 19:16[46]). Mormons believe Christ initiated missionary work in the spirit world during the period between his own death and resurrection (1 Peter 3:19, 4:6), at which time he commissioned righteous spirits to teach the gospel to those who didn't have the opportunity to receive it while on earth (Doctrine and Covenants 138:30[47]). Those spirits who accept the gospel are able to repent, whereas those who choose not to repent are destined to remain in hell throughout the Millennium.[48] At the times appointed for the resurrection, "death and hell" will deliver up the dead that are in them, to be judged according to their works (Rev 20:13). At that time, all but the sons of perdition will attain a degree of glory, which Peter compared to the glory of the sun, moon, and stars (1 Cor 15:41). In another sense, hell is referred to as the permanent state of those who are not redeemed by the atonement of Jesus Christ, which will include the sons of perdition, as well as Satan and his angels.[48]
Early Judaism had no concept of Hell, though the concept of an afterlife was introduced during the Hellenic period, apparently from neighboring Hellenistic religions. It occurs for example in Book of Daniel. Daniel 12:2 proclaims "And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt." Judaism does not have a specific doctrine about the afterlife, but it does have a mystical/Orthodox tradition of describing Gehenna. Gehenna is not Hell, but originally a grave and in later times a sort of Purgatory where one is judged based on one's life's deeds, or rather, where one becomes fully aware of one's own shortcomings and negative actions during one's life. The Kabbalah explains it as a "waiting room" (commonly translated as an "entry way") for all souls (not just the wicked). The overwhelming majority of rabbinic thought maintains that people are not in Gehenna forever; the longest that one can be there is said to be 12 months, however there has been the occasional noted exception. Some consider it a spiritual forge where the soul is purified for its eventual ascent to Olam Habah (heb. עולם הבא; lit. "The world to come", often viewed as analogous to Heaven). This is also mentioned in the Kabbalah, where the soul is described as breaking, like the flame of a candle lighting another: the part of the soul that ascends being pure and the "unfinished" piece being reborn.
According to Jewish teachings, hell is not entirely physical; rather, it can be compared to a very intense feeling of shame. People are ashamed of their misdeeds and this constitutes suffering which makes up for the bad deeds. When one has so deviated from the will of God, one is said to be in gehinom. This is not meant to refer to some point in the future, but to the very present moment. The gates of teshuva (return) are said to be always open, and so one can align his will with that of God at any moment. Being out of alignment with God's will is itself a punishment according to the Torah.
Christianity Main article: Christian views on Hell
The Christian doctrine of hell derives from the teaching of the New Testament, where hell is typically described using the Greek words Tartarus or Hades or the Hebrew word Gehenna. These three terms have different meanings and must be recognized.
Hebrew OT Greek NT KJV NIV
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Sheol Hades (10) Hell Hades (spirit world / afterlife)
Ge Hinom Gehenna (11) Hell Hell (fire, punishment)
The Roman Catholic Church defines Hell as "a state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed." One finds themselves in Hell as the result of dying in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love, becoming eternally separated from Him by one's own free choice[31] immediately after death.[32] TheRoman Catholic Church, many other Christian churches, such as the Baptists and Episcopalians, and some Greek Orthodox churches,[33] Hell is taught as the final destiny of those who have not been found worthy after the general resurrection and last judgment,[34][35][36] where they will be eternally punished for sin and permanently separated from God. The nature of this judgment is inconsistent with many Protestant churches teaching the saving comes from accepting Jesus Christ as their savior, while the Greek Orthodox and Catholic Churches teach that the judgment hinges on both faith and works. However, many Liberal Christians throughout Liberal Protestant and Anglican churches believe in Universal Reconciliation (see below) even though it might contradict more evangelical views in their denomination.[37]
Some modern Christian theologians subscribe to the doctrines of Conditional Immortality. Conditional Immortality is the belief that the soul dies with the body and does not live again until the resurrection. This is the view held by a few Christian sects such as the Living Church of God, The Church of God International, and Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Annihilationism is the belief that the soul is mortal unless granted eternal life, making it possible to be destroyed in Hell.
Jehovah's Witnesses hold that the soul ceases to exist when the person dies[38] and therefore that Hell (Sheol or Hades) is a state of non-existence.[38] In their theology, Gehenna differs from Sheol or Hades in that it holds no hope of a resurrection.[38]Tatarus is held to be the metaphorical state of debasement of the fallen angels between the time of their moral fall (Genesis chapter 6) until their post-millennial destruction along with Satan (Revelation chapter 20).[39]
Universal Reconciliation is the belief that all human souls (even demons and fallen angels) will be eventually reconciled with God and admitted to Heaven. This view is held by some Unitarian-Universalists.[40][41][42]
According to Emanuel Swedenborg’s Second Coming Christian revelation, hell exists because evil people want it. [43] They, not God, introduced evil to the human race.[44]
Once a Mormon realizes that he has been lied to by Joseph Smith and that his divine authority is a myth propagated by the current top 15 leaders the painful journey of separating truth from error and establishing sustainable personal beliefs begins. And this leads him to the painful cross roads. Stay or Leave ? If he leaves the Mormon fold his salvation suddenly comes in question and the belief in heaven and hell needs to be re-examined. Returning to basic Christianity is not easy as its teachings are fragmented. Most evangelical born again Christians suggest that Mormons have followed a false Christ (Prophet) and must be re-born or risk damnation. As a Mormon I felt however that I have followed the true Christ, but had a contaminated concept of him and needed only to repent of all false doctrines taught by the Mormon Church and renounce my masonic temple covenants with the Mormon Church.
Looking a bit deeper into Heaven and Hell it becomes clear that late biblical Judaism was in flux and this has continued into the time of Jesus who has set a much more defining and punishing concept of Hell in scripture. This concept was adopted in the Book of Mormon, but later softened by Joseph Smith. His latest revision has lasted into modern Mormonism.
Extracted from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) teach that hell is a state between death and resurrection, in which those spirits who didn't repent while on earth must suffer for their own sins (Doctrine and Covenants 19:15-17[45]). In this sense, Mormons regard hell as a temporary state that ends for a spirit once they have "paid the uttermost farthing" (Matt 5:26) for the sins they committed. As David wrote, "thou wilt not leave my soul in hell" (Psalms 16:10, 86:13, Acts 2:27). This punishment can be characterized as a mental anguish for sins committed, which Mormons believe Christ took upon himself for all mankind while in the Garden of Gethsemane--"that they may not suffer if they would repent." (Doctrine and Covenants 19:16[46]). Mormons believe Christ initiated missionary work in the spirit world during the period between his own death and resurrection (1 Peter 3:19, 4:6), at which time he commissioned righteous spirits to teach the gospel to those who didn't have the opportunity to receive it while on earth (Doctrine and Covenants 138:30[47]). Those spirits who accept the gospel are able to repent, whereas those who choose not to repent are destined to remain in hell throughout the Millennium.[48] At the times appointed for the resurrection, "death and hell" will deliver up the dead that are in them, to be judged according to their works (Rev 20:13). At that time, all but the sons of perdition will attain a degree of glory, which Peter compared to the glory of the sun, moon, and stars (1 Cor 15:41). In another sense, hell is referred to as the permanent state of those who are not redeemed by the atonement of Jesus Christ, which will include the sons of perdition, as well as Satan and his angels.[48]
Early Judaism had no concept of Hell, though the concept of an afterlife was introduced during the Hellenic period, apparently from neighboring Hellenistic religions. It occurs for example in Book of Daniel. Daniel 12:2 proclaims "And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt." Judaism does not have a specific doctrine about the afterlife, but it does have a mystical/Orthodox tradition of describing Gehenna. Gehenna is not Hell, but originally a grave and in later times a sort of Purgatory where one is judged based on one's life's deeds, or rather, where one becomes fully aware of one's own shortcomings and negative actions during one's life. The Kabbalah explains it as a "waiting room" (commonly translated as an "entry way") for all souls (not just the wicked). The overwhelming majority of rabbinic thought maintains that people are not in Gehenna forever; the longest that one can be there is said to be 12 months, however there has been the occasional noted exception. Some consider it a spiritual forge where the soul is purified for its eventual ascent to Olam Habah (heb. עולם הבא; lit. "The world to come", often viewed as analogous to Heaven). This is also mentioned in the Kabbalah, where the soul is described as breaking, like the flame of a candle lighting another: the part of the soul that ascends being pure and the "unfinished" piece being reborn.
According to Jewish teachings, hell is not entirely physical; rather, it can be compared to a very intense feeling of shame. People are ashamed of their misdeeds and this constitutes suffering which makes up for the bad deeds. When one has so deviated from the will of God, one is said to be in gehinom. This is not meant to refer to some point in the future, but to the very present moment. The gates of teshuva (return) are said to be always open, and so one can align his will with that of God at any moment. Being out of alignment with God's will is itself a punishment according to the Torah.
Christianity Main article: Christian views on Hell
The Christian doctrine of hell derives from the teaching of the New Testament, where hell is typically described using the Greek words Tartarus or Hades or the Hebrew word Gehenna. These three terms have different meanings and must be recognized.
Hebrew OT Greek NT KJV NIV
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Sheol Hades (10) Hell Hades (spirit world / afterlife)
Ge Hinom Gehenna (11) Hell Hell (fire, punishment)
- Hades has similarities to the Old Testament term, Sheol as "the place of the dead". Thus, it is used in reference to both the righteous and the wicked, since both wind up there eventually.[28]
- Gehenna refers to the "Valley of Hinnon", which was a garbage dump outside of Jerusalem. It was a place where people burned their garbage and thus there was always a fire burning there. Bodies of those deemed to have died in sin without hope of salvation (such as people who committed suicide) were thrown there to be destroyed.[29] Gehenna is used in the New Testament as a metaphor for the final place of punishment for the wicked after the resurrection.[30]
- Tartaro (the verb "throw to Tartarus") occurs only once in the New Testament in II Peter 2:4, where it is parallel to the use of the noun form in 1 Enoch as the place of incarceration of 200 fallen angels. It mentions nothing about human souls being sent there in the afterlife.
The Roman Catholic Church defines Hell as "a state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed." One finds themselves in Hell as the result of dying in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love, becoming eternally separated from Him by one's own free choice[31] immediately after death.[32] TheRoman Catholic Church, many other Christian churches, such as the Baptists and Episcopalians, and some Greek Orthodox churches,[33] Hell is taught as the final destiny of those who have not been found worthy after the general resurrection and last judgment,[34][35][36] where they will be eternally punished for sin and permanently separated from God. The nature of this judgment is inconsistent with many Protestant churches teaching the saving comes from accepting Jesus Christ as their savior, while the Greek Orthodox and Catholic Churches teach that the judgment hinges on both faith and works. However, many Liberal Christians throughout Liberal Protestant and Anglican churches believe in Universal Reconciliation (see below) even though it might contradict more evangelical views in their denomination.[37]
Some modern Christian theologians subscribe to the doctrines of Conditional Immortality. Conditional Immortality is the belief that the soul dies with the body and does not live again until the resurrection. This is the view held by a few Christian sects such as the Living Church of God, The Church of God International, and Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Annihilationism is the belief that the soul is mortal unless granted eternal life, making it possible to be destroyed in Hell.
Jehovah's Witnesses hold that the soul ceases to exist when the person dies[38] and therefore that Hell (Sheol or Hades) is a state of non-existence.[38] In their theology, Gehenna differs from Sheol or Hades in that it holds no hope of a resurrection.[38]Tatarus is held to be the metaphorical state of debasement of the fallen angels between the time of their moral fall (Genesis chapter 6) until their post-millennial destruction along with Satan (Revelation chapter 20).[39]
Universal Reconciliation is the belief that all human souls (even demons and fallen angels) will be eventually reconciled with God and admitted to Heaven. This view is held by some Unitarian-Universalists.[40][41][42]
According to Emanuel Swedenborg’s Second Coming Christian revelation, hell exists because evil people want it. [43] They, not God, introduced evil to the human race.[44]
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- Genesis 9:16
Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
Genesis 9:15-17 (in Context) Genesis 9 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Genesis 17:7
I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Genesis 17:6-8 (in Context) Genesis 17 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Genesis 17:8
The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”
Genesis 17:7-9 (in Context) Genesis 17 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Genesis 17:13
Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:12-14 (in Context) Genesis 17 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Genesis 17:19
Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
Genesis 17:18-20 (in Context) Genesis 17 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Genesis 48:4
and said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.’
Genesis 48:3-5 (in Context) Genesis 48 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Numbers 18:19
Whatever is set aside from the holy offerings the Israelites present to the Lord I give to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share. It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the Lord for both you and your offspring.”
Numbers 18:18-20 (in Context) Numbers 18 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Deuteronomy 33:15
with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the fruitfulness of the everlasting hills;
Deuteronomy 33:14-16 (in Context) Deuteronomy 33 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Deuteronomy 33:27
The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemies before you, saying, ‘Destroy them!’
Deuteronomy 33:26-28 (in Context) Deuteronomy 33 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 2 Samuel 23:5
“If my house were not right with God, surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant, arranged and secured in every part; surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire.
2 Samuel 23:4-6 (in Context) 2 Samuel 23 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 Chronicles 16:17
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
1 Chronicles 16:16-18 (in Context) 1 Chronicles 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 Chronicles 16:36
Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Then all the people said “Amen” and “Praise the Lord.”
1 Chronicles 16:35-37 (in Context) 1 Chronicles 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 Chronicles 29:10
[ David’s Prayer ] David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, “Praise be to you, Lord, the God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
1 Chronicles 29:9-11 (in Context) 1 Chronicles 29 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Ezra 9:12
Therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them at any time, that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and leave it to your children as an everlasting inheritance.’
Ezra 9:11-13 (in Context) Ezra 9 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Nehemiah 9:5
And the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah—said: “Stand up and praise the Lord your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting.” “Blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.
Nehemiah 9:4-6 (in Context) Nehemiah 9 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 41:13
Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
Psalm 41:12-13 (in Context) Psalm 41 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 52:5
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living.
Psalm 52:4-6 (in Context) Psalm 52 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 74:3
Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.
Psalm 74:2-4 (in Context) Psalm 74 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 78:66
He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.
Psalm 78:65-67 (in Context) Psalm 78 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Psalm 90:1-3 (in Context) Psalm 90 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 103:17
But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children--
Psalm 103:16-18 (in Context) Psalm 103 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 105:10
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
Psalm 105:9-11 (in Context) Psalm 105 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 106:48
Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise theLord.
Psalm 106:47-48 (in Context) Psalm 106 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 119:142
Your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true.
Psalm 119:141-143 (in Context) Psalm 119 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 139:24
See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139:23-24 (in Context) Psalm 139 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 145:13
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations. The Lord is trustworthy in all he promises and faithful in all he does.
Psalm 145:12-14 (in Context) Psalm 145 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:5-7 (in Context) Isaiah 9 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 24:5
The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlastingcovenant.
Isaiah 24:4-6 (in Context) Isaiah 24 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 30:8
Go now, write it on a tablet for them, inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come it may be an everlastingwitness.
Isaiah 30:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 30 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 33:14
The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: “Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?”
Isaiah 33:13-15 (in Context) Isaiah 33 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 35:10
and those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 35:9-10 (in Context) Isaiah 35 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 40:28
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
Isaiah 40:27-29 (in Context) Isaiah 40 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 45:17
But Israel will be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; you will never be put to shame or disgraced, to ages everlasting.
Isaiah 45:16-18 (in Context) Isaiah 45 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 51:1
[ Everlasting Salvation for Zion ] “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn;
Isaiah 51:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 51:11
Those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 51:10-12 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 54:8
In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord your Redeemer.
Isaiah 54:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 54 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 55:3
Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
Isaiah 55:2-4 (in Context) Isaiah 55 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 55:13
Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the Lord’s renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.”
Isaiah 55:12-13 (in Context) Isaiah 55 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 56:5
to them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure forever.
Isaiah 56:4-6 (in Context) Isaiah 56 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 60:15
“Although you have been forsaken and hated, with no one traveling through, I will make you the everlasting pride and the joy of all generations.
Isaiah 60:14-16 (in Context) Isaiah 60 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 60:19
The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the Lord will be youreverlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
Isaiah 60:18-20 (in Context) Isaiah 60 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 60:20
Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end.
Isaiah 60:19-21 (in Context) Isaiah 60 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 61:7
Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours.
Isaiah 61:6-8 (in Context) Isaiah 61 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 61:8
“For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make aneverlasting covenant with them.
Isaiah 61:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 61 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 63:12
who sent his glorious arm of power to be at Moses’ right hand, who divided the waters before them, to gain for himselfeverlasting renown,
Isaiah 63:11-13 (in Context) Isaiah 63 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jeremiah 5:22
Should you not fear me?” declares the Lord. “Should you not tremble in my presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it.
Jeremiah 5:21-23 (in Context) Jeremiah 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jeremiah 23:40
I will bring on you everlasting disgrace--everlasting shame that will not be forgotten.”
Jeremiah 23:39-40 (in Context) Jeremiah 23 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jeremiah 25:9
I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin.
Jeremiah 25:8-10 (in Context) Jeremiah 25 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jeremiah 31:3
The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.
Jeremiah 31:2-4 (in Context) Jeremiah 31 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jeremiah 32:40
I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.
Jeremiah 32:39-41 (in Context) Jeremiah 32 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jeremiah 50:5
They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in aneverlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 50:4-6 (in Context) Jeremiah 50 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Ezekiel 16:60
Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlastingcovenant with you.
Ezekiel 16:59-61 (in Context) Ezekiel 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Ezekiel 37:26
I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever.
Ezekiel 37:25-27 (in Context) Ezekiel 37 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Daniel 7:14
He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
Daniel 7:13-15 (in Context) Daniel 7 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Daniel 7:27
Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will worship and obey him.’
Daniel 7:26-28 (in Context) Daniel 7 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Daniel 9:24
“Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
Daniel 9:23-25 (in Context) Daniel 9 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
Daniel 12:1-3 (in Context) Daniel 12 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Micah 6:2
“Hear, you mountains, the Lord’s accusation; listen, you everlasting foundations of the earth. For the Lord has a case against his people; he is lodging a charge against Israel.
Micah 6:1-3 (in Context) Micah 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Habakkuk 1:12
[ Habakkuk’s Second Complaint ] Lord, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, you will never die. You,Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment; you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.
Habakkuk 1:11-13 (in Context) Habakkuk 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 2 Thessalonians 1:9
They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might
2 Thessalonians 1:8-10 (in Context) 2 Thessalonians 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jude 1:6
And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.
Jude 1:5-7 (in Context) Jude 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
- Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.
Genesis 21:32-34 (in Context) Genesis 21 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Deuteronomy 33:27
The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemies before you, saying, ‘Destroy them!’
Deuteronomy 33:26-28 (in Context) Deuteronomy 33 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 Kings 10:9
Praise be to the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on the throne of Israel. Because of theLord’s eternal love for Israel, he has made you king to maintain justice and righteousness.”
1 Kings 10:8-10 (in Context) 1 Kings 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 16:11
You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
Psalm 16:10-11 (in Context) Psalm 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 111:10
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongseternal praise.
Psalm 111:9-10 (in Context) Psalm 111 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 119:89
[ ל Lamedh ] Your word, Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens.
Psalm 119:88-90 (in Context) Psalm 119 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Psalm 119:160
All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal.
Psalm 119:159-161 (in Context) Psalm 119 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Ecclesiastes 12:5
when people are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags itself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their eternal home and mourners go about the streets.
Ecclesiastes 12:4-6 (in Context) Ecclesiastes 12 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 26:4
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
Isaiah 26:3-5 (in Context) Isaiah 26 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Isaiah 47:7
You said, ‘I am forever— the eternal queen!’ But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen.
Isaiah 47:6-8 (in Context) Isaiah 47 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jeremiah 10:10
But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath.
Jeremiah 10:9-11 (in Context) Jeremiah 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Daniel 4:3
How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; his dominion endures from generation to generation.
Daniel 4:2-4 (in Context) Daniel 4 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Daniel 4:34
At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever. His dominion is an eternal dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation.
Daniel 4:33-35 (in Context) Daniel 4 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 18:8
If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.
Matthew 18:7-9 (in Context) Matthew 18 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 19:16
[ The Rich and the Kingdom of God ] Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”
Matthew 19:15-17 (in Context) Matthew 19 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
Matthew 19:28-30 (in Context) Matthew 19 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 25:41
“Then 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.
Matthew 25:40-42 (in Context) Matthew 25 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 25:46
“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
Matthew 25:45-46 (in Context) Matthew 25 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Mark 3:29
but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”
Mark 3:28-30 (in Context) Mark 3 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Mark 10:17
[ The Rich and the Kingdom of God ] As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Mark 10:16-18 (in Context) Mark 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Mark 10:30
will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.
Mark 10:29-31 (in Context) Mark 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Luke 10:25
[ The Parable of the Good Samaritan ] On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 10:24-26 (in Context) Luke 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Luke 16:9
I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternaldwellings.
Luke 16:8-10 (in Context) Luke 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Luke 18:18
[ The Rich and the Kingdom of God ] A certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 18:17-19 (in Context) Luke 18 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Luke 18:30
will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.”
Luke 18:29-31 (in Context) Luke 18 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 3:15
that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
John 3:14-16 (in Context) John 3 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but haveeternal life.
John 3:15-17 (in Context) John 3 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.
John 3:35-36 (in Context) John 3 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 4:14
but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 4:13-15 (in Context) John 4 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 4:36
Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
John 4:35-37 (in Context) John 4 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 5:24
“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
John 5:23-25 (in Context) John 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 5:39
You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,
John 5:38-40 (in Context) John 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 6:27
Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
John 6:26-28 (in Context) John 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 6:40
For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
John 6:39-41 (in Context) John 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 6:47
Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.
John 6:46-48 (in Context) John 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 6:54
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
John 6:53-55 (in Context) John 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 6:68
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 6:67-69 (in Context) John 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 10:28
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.
John 10:27-29 (in Context) John 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 12:25
Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
John 12:24-26 (in Context) John 12 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 12:50
I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”
John 12:49-50 (in Context) John 12 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 17:2
For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.
John 17:1-3 (in Context) John 17 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 17:3
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
John 17:2-4 (in Context) John 17 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Acts 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.
Acts 13:45-47 (in Context) Acts 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Acts 13:48
When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed foreternal life believed.
Acts 13:47-49 (in Context) Acts 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Romans 1:19-21 (in Context) Romans 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Romans 2:7
To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
Romans 2:6-8 (in Context) Romans 2 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Romans 5:21
so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 5:20-21 (in Context) Romans 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Romans 6:22
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
Romans 6:21-23 (in Context) Romans 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:22-23 (in Context) Romans 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Romans 16:26
but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all the Gentiles might come to the obedience that comes from faith--
Romans 16:25-27 (in Context) Romans 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (in Context) 2 Corinthians 4 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 2 Corinthians 4:18
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen iseternal.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 (in Context) 2 Corinthians 4 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 2 Corinthians 5:1
[ Awaiting the New Body ] For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
2 Corinthians 5:1-3 (in Context) 2 Corinthians 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Galatians 6:8
Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
Galatians 6:7-9 (in Context) Galatians 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Ephesians 3:11
according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Ephesians 3:10-12 (in Context) Ephesians 3 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 2 Thessalonians 2:16
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,
2 Thessalonians 2:15-17 (in Context) 2 Thessalonians 2 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 Timothy 1:16
But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.
1 Timothy 1:15-17 (in Context) 1 Timothy 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 Timothy 1:17
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Timothy 1:16-18 (in Context) 1 Timothy 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:11-13 (in Context) 1 Timothy 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 2 Timothy 2:10
Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
2 Timothy 2:9-11 (in Context) 2 Timothy 2 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Titus 1:2
in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,
Titus 1:1-3 (in Context) Titus 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Titus 3:7
so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:6-8 (in Context) Titus 3 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Hebrews 5:9
and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him
Hebrews 5:8-10 (in Context) Hebrews 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Hebrews 6:2
instruction about cleansing rites, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
Hebrews 6:1-3 (in Context) Hebrews 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Hebrews 9:12
He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.
Hebrews 9:11-13 (in Context) Hebrews 9 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Hebrews 9:14
How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
Hebrews 9:13-15 (in Context) Hebrews 9 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Hebrews 9:15
For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternalinheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
Hebrews 9:14-16 (in Context) Hebrews 9 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Hebrews 13:20
[ Benediction and Final Greetings ] Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
Hebrews 13:19-21 (in Context) Hebrews 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 Peter 5:10
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
1 Peter 5:9-11 (in Context) 1 Peter 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 2 Peter 1:11
and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 1:10-12 (in Context) 2 Peter 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 John 1:2
The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.
1 John 1:1-3 (in Context) 1 John 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 John 2:25
And this is what he promised us--eternal life.
1 John 2:24-26 (in Context) 1 John 2 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 John 3:15
Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
1 John 3:14-16 (in Context) 1 John 3 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 John 5:11
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1 John 5:10-12 (in Context) 1 John 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 John 5:13
[ Concluding Affirmations ] I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
1 John 5:12-14 (in Context) 1 John 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 John 5:20
We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
1 John 5:19-21 (in Context) 1 John 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jude 1:7
In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 1:6-8 (in Context) Jude 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jude 1:21
keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
Jude 1:20-22 (in Context) Jude 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Revelation 14:6
[ The Three Angels ] Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people.
Revelation 14:5-7 (in Context) Revelation 14 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
- Matthew 19:16
[ The Rich and the Kingdom of God ] Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”
Matthew 19:15-17 (in Context) Matthew 19 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
Matthew 19:28-30 (in Context) Matthew 19 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 25:46
“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
Matthew 25:45-46 (in Context) Matthew 25 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Mark 10:17
[ The Rich and the Kingdom of God ] As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Mark 10:16-18 (in Context) Mark 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Mark 10:30
will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.
Mark 10:29-31 (in Context) Mark 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Luke 10:25
[ The Parable of the Good Samaritan ] On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 10:24-26 (in Context) Luke 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Luke 18:18
[ The Rich and the Kingdom of God ] A certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 18:17-19 (in Context) Luke 18 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Luke 18:30
will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.”
Luke 18:29-31 (in Context) Luke 18 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 3:15
that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
John 3:14-16 (in Context) John 3 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but haveeternal life.
John 3:15-17 (in Context) John 3 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.
John 3:35-36 (in Context) John 3 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 4:14
but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 4:13-15 (in Context) John 4 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 4:36
Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
John 4:35-37 (in Context) John 4 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 5:24
“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
John 5:23-25 (in Context) John 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 5:39
You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me,
John 5:38-40 (in Context) John 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 6:27
Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
John 6:26-28 (in Context) John 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 6:40
For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
John 6:39-41 (in Context) John 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 6:47
Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.
John 6:46-48 (in Context) John 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 6:54
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
John 6:53-55 (in Context) John 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 6:68
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 6:67-69 (in Context) John 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 10:28
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.
John 10:27-29 (in Context) John 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 12:25
Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
John 12:24-26 (in Context) John 12 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 12:50
I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”
John 12:49-50 (in Context) John 12 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 17:2
For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.
John 17:1-3 (in Context) John 17 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - John 17:3
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
John 17:2-4 (in Context) John 17 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Acts 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.
Acts 13:45-47 (in Context) Acts 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Acts 13:48
When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed foreternal life believed.
Acts 13:47-49 (in Context) Acts 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Romans 2:7
To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
Romans 2:6-8 (in Context) Romans 2 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Romans 5:21
so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 5:20-21 (in Context) Romans 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Romans 6:22
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
Romans 6:21-23 (in Context) Romans 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:22-23 (in Context) Romans 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Galatians 6:8
Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
Galatians 6:7-9 (in Context) Galatians 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 Timothy 1:16
But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.
1 Timothy 1:15-17 (in Context) 1 Timothy 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:11-13 (in Context) 1 Timothy 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Titus 1:2
in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,
Titus 1:1-3 (in Context) Titus 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Titus 3:7
so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:6-8 (in Context) Titus 3 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 John 1:2
The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.
1 John 1:1-3 (in Context) 1 John 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 John 2:25
And this is what he promised us--eternal life.
1 John 2:24-26 (in Context) 1 John 2 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 John 3:15
Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
1 John 3:14-16 (in Context) 1 John 3 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 John 5:11
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1 John 5:10-12 (in Context) 1 John 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 John 5:13
[ Concluding Affirmations ] I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
1 John 5:12-14 (in Context) 1 John 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 1 John 5:20
We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
1 John 5:19-21 (in Context) 1 John 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jude 1:21
keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
Jude 1:20-22 (in Context) Jude 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
- Matthew 3:2
and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
Matthew 3:1-3 (in Context) Matthew 3 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 4:17
From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
Matthew 4:16-18 (in Context) Matthew 4 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 5:3
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:2-4 (in Context) Matthew 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 5:10
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:9-11 (in Context) Matthew 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 5:19
Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:18-20 (in Context) Matthew 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 5:20
For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:19-21 (in Context) Matthew 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 7:21
[ True and False Disciples ] “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:20-22 (in Context) Matthew 7 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 8:11
I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 8:10-12 (in Context) Matthew 8 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 10:7
As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’
Matthew 10:6-8 (in Context) Matthew 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 11:11
Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Matthew 11:10-12 (in Context) Matthew 11 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 11:12
From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subjected to violence, and violent people have been raiding it.
Matthew 11:11-13 (in Context) Matthew 11 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 13:11
He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
Matthew 13:10-12 (in Context) Matthew 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 13:24
[ The Parable of the Weeds ] Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
Matthew 13:23-25 (in Context) Matthew 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 13:31
[ The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast ] He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.
Matthew 13:30-32 (in Context) Matthew 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 13:33
He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.”
Matthew 13:32-34 (in Context) Matthew 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 13:44
[ The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl ] “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.
Matthew 13:43-45 (in Context) Matthew 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 13:45
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls.
Matthew 13:44-46 (in Context) Matthew 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 13:47
[ The Parable of the Net ] “Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish.
Matthew 13:46-48 (in Context) Matthew 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 13:52
He said to them, “Therefore every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”
Matthew 13:51-53 (in Context) Matthew 13 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 16:19
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 16:18-20 (in Context) Matthew 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 18:1
[ The Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven ] At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
Matthew 18:1-3 (in Context) Matthew 18 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 18:3
And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 18:2-4 (in Context) Matthew 18 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 18:4
Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 18:3-5 (in Context) Matthew 18 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 18:23
“Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.
Matthew 18:22-24 (in Context) Matthew 18 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 19:12
For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
Matthew 19:11-13 (in Context) Matthew 19 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 19:14
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
Matthew 19:13-15 (in Context) Matthew 19 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 19:23
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 19:22-24 (in Context) Matthew 19 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 20:1
[ The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard ] “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
Matthew 20:1-3 (in Context) Matthew 20 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 22:2
“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
Matthew 22:1-3 (in Context) Matthew 22 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 23:13
[ Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees ] “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
Matthew 23:12-14 (in Context) Matthew 23 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 25:1
[ The Parable of the Ten Virgins ] “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Matthew 25:1-3 (in Context) Matthew 25 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
- Joshua 15:8
Then it ran up the Valley of Ben Hinnom along the southern slope of the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem). From there it climbed to the top of the hill west of the Hinnom Valley at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.
Joshua 15:7-9 (in Context) Joshua 15 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Joshua 18:16
The boundary went down to the foot of the hill facing the Valley of Ben Hinnom, north of the Valley of Rephaim. It continued down the Hinnom Valley along the southern slope of the Jebusite city and so to En Rogel.
Joshua 18:15-17 (in Context) Joshua 18 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 2 Kings 23:10
He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice their son or daughter in the fire to Molek.
2 Kings 23:9-11 (in Context) 2 Kings 23 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 2 Chronicles 28:3
He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and sacrificed his children in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 28:2-4 (in Context) 2 Chronicles 28 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 2 Chronicles 33:6
He sacrificed his children in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced divination and witchcraft, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger.
2 Chronicles 33:5-7 (in Context) 2 Chronicles 33 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Nehemiah 11:30
Zanoah, Adullam and their villages, in Lachish and its fields, and in Azekah and its settlements. So they were living all the way from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.
Nehemiah 11:29-31 (in Context) Nehemiah 11 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jeremiah 7:31
They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.
Jeremiah 7:30-32 (in Context) Jeremiah 7 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jeremiah 7:32
So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of BenHinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
Jeremiah 7:31-33 (in Context) Jeremiah 7 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jeremiah 19:2
and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you,
Jeremiah 19:1-3 (in Context) Jeremiah 19 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jeremiah 19:6
So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
Jeremiah 19:5-7 (in Context) Jeremiah 19 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Jeremiah 32:35
They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek, though I never commanded—nor did it enter my mind—that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin.
Jeremiah 32:34-36 (in Context) Jeremiah 32 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 5:22
But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire ofhell.
Matthew 5:21-23 (in Context) Matthew 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 5:29
If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Matthew 5:28-30 (in Context) Matthew 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 5:30
And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
Matthew 5:29-31 (in Context) Matthew 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 10:28
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 10:27-29 (in Context) Matthew 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 11:23
And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
Matthew 11:22-24 (in Context) Matthew 11 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 16:18
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
Matthew 16:17-19 (in Context) Matthew 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 18:9
And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
Matthew 18:8-10 (in Context) Matthew 18 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 23:15
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
Matthew 23:14-16 (in Context) Matthew 23 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Matthew 23:33
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
Matthew 23:32-34 (in Context) Matthew 23 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Mark 9:43
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go intohell, where the fire never goes out.
Mark 9:42-44 (in Context) Mark 9 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Mark 9:45
And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.
Mark 9:44-46 (in Context) Mark 9 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Mark 9:47
And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,
Mark 9:46-48 (in Context) Mark 9 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Luke 10:15
And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.
Luke 10:14-16 (in Context) Luke 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Luke 12:5
But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
Luke 12:4-6 (in Context) Luke 12 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Luke 16:23
In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.
Luke 16:22-24 (in Context) Luke 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Acts 6:1
[ The Choosing of the Seven ] In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
Acts 6:1-3 (in Context) Acts 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Acts 9:29
He talked and debated with the Hellenistic Jews, but they tried to kill him.
Acts 9:28-30 (in Context) Acts 9 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - James 3:6
The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
James 3:5-7 (in Context) James 3 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - 2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
2 Peter 2:3-5 (in Context) 2 Peter 2 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Revelation 1:18
I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
Revelation 1:17-19 (in Context) Revelation 1 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Revelation 6:8
I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Revelation 6:7-9 (in Context) Revelation 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Revelation 20:13
The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.
Revelation 20:12-14 (in Context) Revelation 20 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations - Revelation 20:14
Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.
Revelation 20:13-15 (in Context) Revelation 20 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations