Bible verses about "eternity" | WNT

⁴³ If your hand should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life maimed, than remain in possession of both your hands and go away into Gehenna, into the fire which cannot be put out. ⁴⁴ OMITTED TEXT ⁴⁵ Or if your foot should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life crippled, than remain in possession of both your feet and be thrown into Gehenna. ⁴⁶ OMITTED TEXT ⁴⁷ Or if your eye should cause you to sin, tear it out. It would be better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God half-blind than remain in possession of two eyes and be thrown into Gehenna, ⁴⁸ where THEIR WORM DOES NOT DIE AND THE FIRE DOES NOT GO OUT.

⁴³ Then will the righteous shine out like the sun in their Father's Kingdom. Listen, every one who has ears!

¹² But all who have received Him, to them--that is, to those who trust in His name--He has given the privilege of becoming children of God;

¹⁶ For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

¹⁷ So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things has come into existence.

⁶ And angels--those who did not keep the position originally assigned to them, but deserted their own proper abode--He reserves in everlasting bonds, in darkness, in preparation for the judgement of the great day.

² In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you. ³ And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.

²³ I am in a dilemma, my earnest desire being to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, far better.

⁸ He who sows in the field of his lower nature, will from that nature reap destruction; but he who sows to serve the Spirit will from the Spirit reap the Life of the Ages.

⁴⁶ "And these shall go away into the Punishment of the Ages, but the righteous into the Life of the Ages."

³ And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

⁵⁰ Here is the bread that comes down out of Heaven that a man may eat it and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world." ⁵² This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ "In most solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no Life in you. ⁵⁴ He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me, and I remain in union with him. ⁵⁷ As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. He who eats this bread shall live for ever." ⁵⁹ Jesus said all this in the synagogue while teaching at Capernaum. ⁶⁰ Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?" ⁶¹ But, knowing in Himself that His disciples were dissatisfied about it, Jesus asked them, ⁶² "Does this seem incredible to you? What then if you were to see the Son of Man ascending again where He was before? ⁶³ It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and are Life. ⁶⁴ But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him. ⁶⁵ So He added, "That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father." ⁶⁶ Thereupon many of His disciples left Him and went away, and no longer associated with Him. ⁶⁷ Jesus therefore appealed to the Twelve. "Will you go also?" He asked. ⁶⁸ "Master," replied Simon Peter, "to whom shall we go? Your teachings tell us of the Life of the Ages. ⁶⁹ And we have come to believe and know that *you* are indeed the Holy One of God." ⁷⁰ "Did not I choose you--the Twelve?" said Jesus, "and even of you one is a devil." ⁷¹ He alluded to Judas, the son of Simon the Iscariot. For he it was who, though one of the Twelve, was afterwards to betray Him.

²⁷ And since it is reserved for all mankind once to die, and afterwards to be judged;

⁹ They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, being banished from the presence of the Lord and from His glorious majesty,

²³ For the wages paid by Sin are death; but God's free gift is the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁴ "In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.