100 Bible Verses about Portals To See Into Hell

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 8 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.

Revelation 20:10 ESV / 7 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.

Luke 16:24 ESV / 6 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.’

Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 6 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?’ ...

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 6 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.

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 6 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.

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 5 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.”

Revelation 20:15 ESV / 5 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.

Revelation 20:14 ESV / 5 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.

Revelation 20:13 ESV / 5 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.

Revelation 14:10 ESV / 5 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.

Revelation 1:18 ESV / 5 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.

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 5 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;

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 5 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,

John 5:29 ESV / 5 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.

Luke 16:23 ESV / 5 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.

Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 5 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. ...

Mark 9:48 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Mark 9:43-48 ESV / 5 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.’

Matthew 23:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 18:9 ESV / 5 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.

Matthew 7:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Isaiah 14:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?’

Psalm 9:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Revelation 19:20 ESV / 4 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 14:11 ESV / 4 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.”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 4 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, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Jude 1:13 ESV / 4 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.

Jude 1:7 ESV / 4 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.

2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 4 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.

2 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 4 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.

Acts 2:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 3:36 ESV / 4 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.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 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.

Luke 16:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried,

Mark 9:45 ESV / 4 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.

Mark 9:44 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 9:43 ESV / 4 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.

Matthew 22:13 ESV / 4 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.’

Matthew 18:8 ESV / 4 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 13:50 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 8:12 ESV / 4 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.”

Matthew 5:30 ESV / 4 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 3:12 ESV / 4 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.”

Daniel 12:2 ESV / 4 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.

Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 4 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.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

Job 14:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Genesis 37:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Revelation 20:14-15 ESV / 3 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.

Revelation 20:6 ESV / 3 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.

Jude 1:6 ESV / 3 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—

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 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.

2 Peter 2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

James 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.

Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

2 Corinthians 12:1-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

1 Corinthians 15:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

Romans 3:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Acts 24:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.

Acts 2:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

John 8:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 5:28-29 ESV / 3 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.

John 5:28 ESV / 3 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

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 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.

Luke 23:43 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Luke 20:47 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

Luke 12:47-48 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

Luke 12:5 ESV / 3 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!

Luke 10:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.

Luke 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Mark 12:40 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

Mark 9:47 ESV / 3 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,

Matthew 23:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Matthew 23:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 18:8-9 ESV / 3 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.

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 3 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.

Matthew 13:42 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 11:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

Matthew 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Jonah 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Saying, “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice.

Amos 9:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

Hosea 13:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

Daniel 12:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.

Isaiah 66:24 ESV / 3 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.”

Isaiah 14:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Psalm 55:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let death steal over them; let them go down to Sheol alive; for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Psalm 16:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.

Job 11:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

Deuteronomy 32:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”