Best match4 Maccabees 12:12
12 Therefore the divine vengeance is reserving you for eternal fire and torments, which will cling to you for all time. (WEB)
Bible passages about “Eternal conscious torment”
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Book of Enoch 22:11–13
11 Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the great day of judgement and punishment and torment of those who curse for ever and retribution for their spirits. There He shall bind them for ever. (ENO) 12 And such a division has been made for the spirits of those who make their suit, who make disclosures concerning their destruction, when they were slain in the days of the sinners. (ENO) 13 Such has been made for the spirits of men who were not righteous but sinners, who were complete in transgression, and of the transgressors they shall be companions: but their spirits shall not be slain in the day of judgement nor shall they be raised from thence. (ENO)
Revelation 14:10–11
10 he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
Revelation 20:10
10 And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
2 Esdras 7:80
80 these spirits won’t enter into habitations, but will wander and be in torments immediately, ever grieving and sad, in seven ways. (WEB)
2 Esdras 9:9–12
9 Then those who now have abused my ways will be amazed. Those who have cast them away despitefully will live in torments. (WEB) 10 For as many as in their life have received benefits, and yet have not known me, (WEB) 11 and as many as have scorned my law, while they still had liberty and when an opportunity to repent was open to them, didn’t understand, but despised it, (WEB) 12 must know it in torment after death. (WEB)
Apocalypse of Peter 1:33–34
33 And beside that rock was a place full of much fire, and there stood men which with their own hands had made images for themselves instead of God, [And beside them other men and women] having rods of fire and smiting one another and never resting from this manner of torment.... (APE) 34a And yet others near unto them, men and women, burning and turning themselves about and roasted as in a pan. And these were they that forsook the way of God. THE BODLEIAN LEAF It measures but 2 3/4 by 2 inches and has 13 lines of 8 to 10 letters on each side (Madan's Summary Catalogue, No. 31810). The verso (second page) is difficult to read. (APE) 34b Recto=Gr. 33, 34: women holding chains and scourging themselves before those idols of deceit. And they shall unceasingly have this torment. And near Verso: them shall be other men and women burning in the burning of them that were mad after idols. And these are they which forsook the way of God wholly (?) and . . . (APE)
Apocryphon of John 18:17–19
17 It will not be thrown again into another flesh.” (APJ) 18 I also asked: “Lord, these who also did know, but who have turned away, where will their souls go?” (APJ) 19 Then he said to me: “They will be brought to that place where the angels of destitution go, the place with no repentance, and they will be detained for the day when those who have blasphemed the Spirit will be tormented, and they will be punished with an age-long punishment.” (APJ)
Book of Enoch 10:13–14
13 In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: 〈and〉 to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever. (ENO) 14 And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all generations. (ENO)
Apocalypse of Peter 1:21–32
21 And I saw also another place over against that one, very squalid; and it was a place of punishment, and they that were punished and the angels that punished them had their raiment dark, according to the air of the place. (APE) 22 And some there were there hanging by their tongues; and these were they that blasphemed the way of righteousness, and under them was laid fire flaming and tormenting them. (APE) 23 And there was a great lake full of flaming mire, wherein were certain men that turned away from righteousness; and angels, tormentors, were set over them. (APE) 24 And there were also others, women, hanged by their hair above that mire which boiled up; and these were they that adorned themselves for adultery. And the men that were joined with them in the defilement of adultery were hanging by their feet, and had their heads hidden in the mire, and said: We believed not that we should come unto this place. (APE) 25 And I saw the murderers and them that were consenting to them cast into a strait place full of evil, creeping things, and smitten by those beasts, and so turning themselves about in that torment. And upon them were set worms like clouds of darkness. And the souls of them that were murdered stood and looked upon the torment of those murderers and said: O God, righteous is thy judgement. (APE) 26 And hard by that place I saw another strait place wherein the discharge and the stench of them that were in torment ran… (APE) 27 … (APE)
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