100 Bible Verses about Eternal Damnation In Hell

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 1,874 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“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.

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 1,770 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Jude 1:7 ESV / 1,501 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 1,437 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1,419 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 1,361 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 1,323 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Revelation 20:10 ESV / 1,271 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

John 3:16 ESV / 1,151 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Mark 9:43 ESV / 1,129 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.

John 3:36 ESV / 1,109 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

Daniel 12:2 ESV / 1,084 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Mark 9:48 ESV / 1,037 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’

Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 974 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Jude 1:13 ESV / 966 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 954 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

Revelation 19:20 ESV / 939 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Revelation 20:14-15 ESV / 932 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 919 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Matthew 13:50 ESV / 896 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Revelation 14:9-11 ESV / 875 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 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.”

Revelation 14:11 ESV / 848 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.”

John 5:29 ESV / 837 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 20:15 ESV / 826 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Isaiah 66:24 ESV / 821 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”

Revelation 20:14 ESV / 803 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 23:33 ESV / 778 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

Mark 16:16 ESV / 766 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Revelation 14:10 ESV / 753 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

Psalm 9:17 ESV / 752 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 748 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Matthew 18:8 ESV / 742 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.

Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 727 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, ...

John 5:28-29 ESV / 721 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 20:13-14 ESV / 718 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 702 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“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. ...

John 3:16-17 ESV / 696 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 16:19 ESV / 684 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Matthew 13:42 ESV / 680 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Malachi 4:1 ESV / 671 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 670 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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?’ ...

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 662 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 640 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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,

Matthew 3:12 ESV / 618 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Luke 12:5 ESV / 614 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!

Acts 2:27 ESV / 613 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.

Proverbs 23:14 ESV / 612 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

Jude 1:6 ESV / 604 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

Psalm 37:20 ESV / 602 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

2 Peter 3:10 ESV / 595 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

Galatians 6:8 ESV / 582 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

John 5:24 ESV / 576 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Matthew 5:30 ESV / 565 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 553 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Revelation 20:13 ESV / 552 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.

Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 542 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Revelation 1:18 ESV / 535 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

Luke 23:43 ESV / 535 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

Mark 9:44 ESV / 526 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 3:29 ESV / 525 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 522 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Revelation 20:6 ESV / 507 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Matthew 5:29 ESV / 503 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

Revelation 2:11 ESV / 491 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.’

John 5:28 ESV / 488 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

Matthew 8:12 ESV / 487 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

While the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Mark 9:43-48 ESV / 459 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’

John 17:3 ESV / 457 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

Matthew 7:13 ESV / 457 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.

Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 457 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Revelation 9:2 ESV / 452 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.

Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 447 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ...

Malachi 4:3 ESV / 446 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.

Hebrews 12:29 ESV / 443 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For our God is a consuming fire.

2 Peter 2:6 ESV / 442 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;

Matthew 7:19 ESV / 441 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

2 Peter 2:9 ESV / 439 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,

Mark 9:47 ESV / 419 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,

Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 410 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.

Mark 9:46 ESV / 404 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 18:8-9 ESV / 388 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.

John 4:14 ESV / 384 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Revelation 20:3 ESV / 375 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.

Titus 1:2 ESV / 363 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

Luke 16:23 ESV / 354 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 344 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Luke 16:24 ESV / 336 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’

Jeremiah 7:31 ESV / 330 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

Matthew 13:41-42 ESV / 283 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 18:9 ESV / 275 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.

Psalm 145:20 ESV / 272 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

Mark 9:45 ESV / 261 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.

Revelation 20:13-15 ESV / 248 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Matthew 22:13 ESV / 242 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Romans 13:2 ESV / 231 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.

Matthew 25:1 ESV / 225 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 221 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

Hebrews 6:4-8 ESV / 211 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.

1 Corinthians 15:2 ESV / 186 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Mark 9:4 ESV / 183 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.