Bible verses about "afterlife" | Goodspeed

⁴¹ Then he will say to those at his left, 'Begone, you accursed people, to the everlasting fire destined for the devil and his angels!

⁹ When he broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who have been slaughtered on account of God's message and for adhering to the testimony. ¹⁰ They cried out in a loud voice, "Holy and true Master, how long is it to be before you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" ¹¹ Then each of them was given a white robe and they were told to be quiet a little while longer, until the number of their fellow-slaves and their brothers, who were to be killed as they had been, should be complete.

⁶ Blessed and holy is the man who experiences the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them; they will be priests of God and the Christ, and reign with him for the thousand years.

¹ A revelation made by Jesus Christ which God gave him to disclose to his slaves of what must very soon happen. He sent and communicated it by his angel to his slave John, ² who testifies to what he saw—to the message of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. ³ Blessed be the man who reads this prophecy and those who hear it read and heed what is written in it, for the time is near. ⁴ John to the seven churches in Asia, blessing and peace to you from him who is and was and is coming, and from the seven spirits before his throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the sovereign of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has released us from our sins by his blood ⁶ he has made us a kingdom of priests for his God and Father—to him be glory and power forever. Amen. ⁷ See! He is coming on the clouds, and every eye will see him, even the men who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will lament over him. So it is to be, Amen. ⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega." says the Lord God, who is and was and is coming, the Almighty. ⁹ I, John, your brother and companion in the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance that Jesus brings, found myself on the island called Patmos, for uttering God's message and testifying to Jesus. ¹⁰ On the Lord's day I fell into a trance, and I heard a loud voice like a trumpet behind me ¹¹ say, "Write what you see in a roll and send it to the seven churches—to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea." ¹² I turned to see whose voice it was that was speaking to me, and when I turned I saw seven gold lampstands, ¹³ and among the lampstands a being like a man, wearing a long robe, with a gold belt around his breast. ¹⁴ His head and hair were as white as white wool, as white as snow; his eyes blazed like fire; ¹⁵ his feet were like bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the noise of mighty waters. ¹⁶ In his right hand he held seven stars; from his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword, and his face shone like the sun at noonday. ¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. But he laid his right hand upon me, and said, "Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last, ¹⁸ the living one. I was dead, yet here I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys of death and the underworld. ¹⁹ So write what you have seen, what is now and what is to happen hereafter. ²⁰ The secret meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold lampstands is this: The seven stars are the guardian angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

¹⁹ "There was once a rich man, who used to dress in purple and fine linen, and to live in luxury every day. ²⁰ And a beggar named Lazarus was put down at his gate covered with sores ²¹ and eager to satisfy his hunger with what was thrown away from the rich man's table. Why, the very dogs came and licked his sores. ²² And it came about that the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to the companionship of Abraham, and the rich man too died and was buried. ²³ And in Hades he looked up, tormented as he was, and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus beside him. ²⁴ And he called to him and said, 'Father Abraham! take pity on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in torment, here in the flames!' ²⁵ And Abraham said, 'My child, remember that you received your blessings in your lifetime, and Lazarus had his misfortunes in his; and now he is being comforted here, while you are in anguish. ²⁶ Besides there is a great chasm set between you and us, so that those who want to go over from this side to you cannot, and they cannot cross from your side to us.' ²⁷ And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house, ²⁸ for I have five brothers; let him warn them so that they will not also come to this place of torture.' ²⁹ Abraham answered, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them listen to them.' ³⁰ But he said, 'No! Father Abraham, but if someone will go to them from the dead, they will repent!' ³¹ He answered, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!' "

²⁸ Have no fear of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. You had better be afraid of one who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.

² There are many rooms in my Father's house; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.

⁴³ And he said to him, "I tell you, you will be in Paradise with me today!"

⁸ But the cowardly, unfaithful, and polluted—murderers, immoral people, those who practice magic or idolatry, and all liars will find themselves in the burning lake of fire and brimstone. This is the second death."

⁴⁶ Then they will go away to everlasting punishment, and the upright to everlasting life."

¹⁶ For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.