100 Bible Verses about Levels Of Hell

Luke 12:47-48 ESV / 86 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.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 81 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 20:10 ESV / 63 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.

Matthew 10:15 ESV / 63 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 61 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 20:15 ESV / 53 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 14:11 ESV / 53 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 25:46 ESV / 52 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 52 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.

Revelation 20:12 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

John 3:16 ESV / 44 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.

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 43 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 8:12 ESV / 43 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.”

Revelation 19:20 ESV / 42 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.

Mark 9:48 ESV / 41 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 40 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.

John 19:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”

Mark 9:43 ESV / 37 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 23:33 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Jude 1:7 ESV / 35 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.

James 3:1 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

2 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 34 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,

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.

John 3:36 ESV / 34 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.

Luke 16:23 ESV / 31 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.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Amos 9:2 ESV / 30 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.

Proverbs 15:24 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.

Deuteronomy 32:22 ESV / 29 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.

2 Corinthians 12:2 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Matthew 13:50 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 27 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.

Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 27 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. ...

Matthew 23:14 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Zechariah 3:1 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.

Acts 2:31 ESV / 26 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.

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 26 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.

Daniel 12:2 ESV / 26 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.

Revelation 20:14 ESV / 25 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 1:18 ESV / 25 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.

Revelation 22:12 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.

Hebrews 6:4-6 ESV / 24 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.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Luke 23:43 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Luke 10:18 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 24 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.

John 14:6 ESV / 23 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.

Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 23 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. ...

Matthew 22:13 ESV / 23 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.’

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 23 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 86:13 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

Psalm 55:15 ESV / 23 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.

Revelation 20:13 ESV / 22 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 20:6 ESV / 22 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.

Luke 20:47 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Revelation 14:10 ESV / 21 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.

Mark 9:43-48 ESV / 21 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 7:21-23 ESV / 21 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.’

Psalm 116:3 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.

Psalm 9:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Hebrews 10:29 ESV / 20 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?

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

Proverbs 15:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord; how much more the hearts of the children of man!

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 19 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.

Romans 1:20 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Matthew 13:42 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Corinthians 12:2-4 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Luke 16:24 ESV / 18 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.’

Matthew 24:51 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 18:9 ESV / 18 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 11:23 ESV / 18 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.

Genesis 1:7-8 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

Revelation 9:2 ESV / 17 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.

James 2:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

2 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 17 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.

Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 17 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 11:23-24 ESV / 17 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. But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.”

Habakkuk 2:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples.”

Isaiah 61:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy.

Proverbs 7:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 16 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,

Jude 1:6 ESV / 16 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—

James 3:6 ESV / 16 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.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 16 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.

Ezekiel 32:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The mighty chiefs shall speak of them, with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: ‘They have come down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’

Isaiah 14:15 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.

Psalm 18:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

Revelation 13:1-18 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. ...

Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

Luke 12:5 ESV / 15 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!

Matthew 18:8 ESV / 15 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 3:12 ESV / 15 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.”

2 Samuel 22:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 14 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.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 14 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 10:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Proverbs 24:12 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?

Numbers 16:33 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

Revelation 20:14-15 ESV / 13 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.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.