100 Bible Verses about Damnation

Mark 3:29 ESV / 159 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Mark 16:16 ESV / 152 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 147 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 25:41 ESV / 134 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 / 131 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Romans 9:22 ESV / 123 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Matthew 23:33 ESV / 117 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Revelation 20:14-15 ESV / 110 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.

Jude 1:7 ESV / 101 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 / 98 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.”

Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 95 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.

2 Peter 2:3 ESV / 87 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

John 5:29 ESV / 86 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 14:11 ESV / 85 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.”

Matthew 13:50 ESV / 73 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 3:18 ESV / 64 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

2 Peter 3:7 ESV / 46 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 38 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;

Matthew 13:49-50 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 34 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.

Romans 2:5 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

Luke 16:23 ESV / 33 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.

Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 32 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.

John 5:24 ESV / 30 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.

2 Peter 2:1-3 ESV / 29 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. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

Hebrews 10:27 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 ESV / 20 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. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

John 14:6 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Revelation 20:4 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

John 3:16 ESV / 19 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.

Jude 1:6 ESV / 18 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—

Hebrews 10:26-27 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

Matthew 13:42 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 17 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.

Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 16 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.

Revelation 17:8 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Romans 13:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 3:36 ESV / 15 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.

Revelation 20:15 ESV / 13 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.

2 Peter 3:10 ESV / 13 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.

Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 13 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,

Galatians 5:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

1 Corinthians 11:29 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Mark 9:43-48 ESV / 13 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.’

Revelation 13:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.

Hebrews 10:29 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?

2 Corinthians 11:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

Matthew 7:13 ESV / 12 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 5:22 ESV / 12 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.

Isaiah 55:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;

1 Timothy 1:9-10 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

1 Thessalonians 5:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Luke 21:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.

Mark 9:47 ESV / 11 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 25:31-46 ESV / 11 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, ...

Revelation 20:2-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 12:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.

2 Timothy 2:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

1 Timothy 5:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith.

2 Thessalonians 2:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Galatians 3:23-25 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

Romans 16:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Romans 14:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Romans 14:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.

Romans 3:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

John 5:28-29 ESV / 10 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.

Matthew 24:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

Jonah 4:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

Hosea 4:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Genesis 19:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.”

Revelation 20:13-15 ESV / 9 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.

Revelation 12:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.

Revelation 11:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

2 Peter 2:9 ESV / 9 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,

2 Peter 2:4-9 ESV / 9 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; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; 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; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); ...

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 5:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

John 9:1-41 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ...

Luke 16:23-24 ESV / 9 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. 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.’

Mark 9:43 ESV / 9 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 23:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Jeremiah 4:23-27 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light. I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro. I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the air had fled. I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the Lord, before his fierce anger. For thus says the Lord, “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

Revelation 11:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 8 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,

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Luke 20:47 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Luke 15:3-7 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Mark 12:40 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Jeremiah 5:30-31 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Revelation 20:7-8 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.

Revelation 9:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.

1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.