941 verses about Hell

This is the order of the souls of the just, as from henceforth is announcer to them, and aforesaid are the ways of torture which those who would not give heed shall suffer from henceforth.

And I answered and said, shall time therefore be given to the souls after they are separated from the bodies, that they may see that whereof you have spoken to me?

He answered me, and said, This present world is not the end; the full glory remains not therein: therefore have they who were able prayed for the weak.

For what profit is it for all that are in this present time to live in heaviness, and after death to look for punishment?

And that there are reserved habitations of health and safety, whereas we have lived wickedly?

And that the glory of the Most High shall defend them which have led a pure life, whereas we have walked in the most wicked ways of all?

And that the faces of them which have used abstinence shall shine above the stars, whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness?

For while we lived and committed iniquity, we considered not what we should have to suffer after death.

Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no, nor me which have spoken to them;

so that there shall not be such heaviness in their destruction, as there shall be joy over those who are persuaded to salvation.

there would perhaps be very few left in an innumerable multitude.

And he answered me, and said, The Most High has made this world for many, but the world to come for few.

The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness is done away from you, and [death] is hidden; hell and corruption are fled into forgetfulness:

Therefore ask you no more questions concerning the multitude of them that perish.

and said in their heart, that there is no God; yes, and that knowing they must die.

For as the things aforesaid shall receive you, so thirst and pain which are prepared shall receive them: for the Most High willed not that men should come to nothing:

Then shall they be amazed, which now have abused my ways: and those who have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.

the same must know it after death by torment.

And after this I saw, and, behold, there was gathered together a multitude of men, out of number, from the four winds of heaven, to make war against the man that came out of the sea.

And these were all mingled together; the flood of fire, the flaming breath, and the great storm; and fell upon the assault of the multitude which was prepared to fight, and burned them up every one, so that upon a sudden of an innumerable multitude nothing was to be perceived, but only dust of ashes and smell of smoke: when I saw this I was amazed.

For as I conceive in my understanding, woe to those who shall be left in those days! and much more woe to those who are not left!

and shall taunt them to their face with their evil thoughts, and the torments wherewith they shall be tormented, which are likened to a flame: and he shall destroy them without labor by the law, which is likened to fire.

For all the unbelievers shall die in their unbelief.

Woe to the world and those who dwell therein!

And a fire is gone forth from his wrath, and has consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.

They shall come to her, and compass her about; the star and all wrath shall they pour out upon her: then shall the dust and smoke go up to the heaven, and all those who are about her shall bewail her.

woe to you, you wretch, because you have made yourself like to her; you have decked your daughters in whoredom, that they might please and glory in your lovers, which have always desired you to commit whoredom withal!

And those who are in the mountains shall die of hunger, and eat their own flesh, and drink their own blood, for very hunger of bread, and thirst of water.

A fire is sent upon you, and who is he that may quench it?

A fire shall go forth from his wrath, and who is he that may quench it?

The fire is kindled, and shall not be put out, till it consume the foundations of the earth.

Woe is me! woe is me! who will deliver me in those days?

the more will I hate them for their sins, says the Lord.

Let not the sinner say that he has not sinned: for he shall burn coals of fire upon his head, which says, I have not sinned before God and his glory.

Woe to those who are fast bound with their sins, and covered with their iniquities, like as a field is fast bound with bushes, and the path thereof covered with thorns, that no man may travel through!

In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money, and vaingloriousness, and contention, and faithlessness, and the evil eye.

then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burned him on the fire, and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils.

And when the spearman brought forward the wheels, and the racks, and the hooks, and catapults, and caldrons, pans, and finger-racks, and iron hands and wedges, and bellows, the tyrant continue:

But you, for the wicked and despotic slaughter of us, shall, from the Divine vengeance, endure eternal torture by fire.

While he was saying this, they heaped up fuel, and setting fire to it, strained him upon the wheel still more.

Thinkest you not, most cruel of all tyrants, that you are now tortured more than I, finding your overweening conception of tyranny conquered by our perseverance in behalf of our religion?

But you are tortured with threatenings for impiety; and you shall not escape, most corrupt tyrant, the vengeance of Divine wrath.

Now then, whatever instrument of vengeance you⌃ have, apply it to my body, for you⌃ are not able to touch, even if you⌃ wish it, my soul.

But you, for your impiety and blood shedding, shall endure indissoluble torments.

By the blessed death of my kindred, and the eternal punishment of the tyrant, and the glorious life of the pious, I will not repudiate the noble brotherhood.

Extended upon which, with limbs racked and dislocated, he was gradually roasted from beneath.

And having heated sharp spits, they approached them to his back; and having transfixed his sides, they burned away his entrails.

I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O deviser of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious.

Wherefore the divine vengeance is reserving you for eternal fire and torments, which shall cling to you for all time.

But you, both living and dead, he will punish.

for great is the trial of soul and danger of eternal torment laid up for those who transgress the commandment of God.

We now shudder at the recital of the affliction of those young men; but they not only saw, and not only heard the immediate execution of the threat, but undergoing it, persevered; and that through the pains of fire.

And what could be more painful? for the power of fire, being sharp and quick, speedily dissolved their bodies.

She saw her children’s flesh dissolving around the fire; and their extremities quivering on the ground, and the flesh of their heads dropped forwards down to their beards, like masks.

And the tyrant Antiochus was both punished upon earth, and is punished now he is dead; for when he was quite unable to compel the Israelites to adopt foreign customs, and to desert the manner of life of their fathers,

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

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

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

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

Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

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

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

Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

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

When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.

Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

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

But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.

“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.

But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.”

Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.

Then he says, ‘I will return into my house from which I came out,’ and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”

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

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

which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.

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

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

For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

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

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.