Why hell… It comes from a judicial sentence of condemnation by God for those who reject Him (Satan, demons, unsaved humans)
What happens there… weeping and gnashing of teeth, torment, destroy both soul and body
References to… the second death, eternal punishment, outer darkness, pits of darkness, chains of darkness, my bed in the darkness, lake of fire, unquenchable fire, fiery hell, the nether world, Sheol, Gehenna, Hades….
Matthew 8:12
but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 22:13
Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Throw out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Lake of fire
Revelation 20:14
Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:15
And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Eternal punishment
…45 ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that
you did not do it
to one of the least of these,
you did not do it to Me.’
46 These will go away
into eternal punishment,
but
the righteous
into eternal life.”
– Matthew 25:45-46
Hell * The term “Gehenna” is translated “hell” in the NASB. “Hell” occurs 54 times in 54 verses in the KJV Bible.
See: References to Hell at BlueLetterBible.
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.
If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.
Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire
If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than, having your two feet, to be cast into hell
If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into hell
But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!
And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. (Gehenna)
Hades
Matthew 16:18
I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
And you, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will descend to Hades; for if the miracles had occurred in Sodom which occurred in you, it would have remained to this day.
I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
And you, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will be brought down to Hades!
In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and *saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom.
Because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, Nor allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.
he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that He was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did His flesh suffer decay.
and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds.
Sheol [I.e. the nether world] For More: References to Sheol
Psalm 139:8
If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.
Job 7:9
“When a cloud vanishes, it is gone, So he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.
Job 17:13
“If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness
Gehenna “Gehenna” occurs 12 times in 12 verses in the YLT. For More: References to Gehenna * The term “Gehenna” is translated “hell” in the NASB.
James 3:6 YLT
and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.
Mark 9:43-44 YLT
‘And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee maimed to enter into the life, than having the two hands, to go away to the gehenna, to the fire — the unquenchable –where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched.
The Abyss (the bottomless pit, the dwelling place of demons)
Revelation 17:8
8 “The beast that you saw was [once], but [now] is not, and he is about to come up out of the abyss (the bottomless pit, the dwelling place of demons) and go to destruction (perdition). And the inhabitants of the earth, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, will be astonished when they see the beast, because he was and is not and is yet to come [to earth].
List of biblical references on Hell: Isa. 66:24; Dan. 12:2; Matt. 25:41, 46; Mark 9:43, 48; 2 Thess. 1:9; Jude 7, 13; Rev. 14:9–11; 20:10, 14–15. – listed by , in his article – Bart Ehrman’s Latest Attack on Christianity. Also: Revelation 17:8
Note: Hell is not just where we (those there) sit in a lake of fire burning up forever. It is described with all these words (not just fire):
the second death,
eternal punishment,
outer darkness,
pits of darkness,
chains of darkness,
my bed in the darkness,
lake of fire,
unquenchable fire,
the unquenchable,
fiery hell,
the nether world,
the abyss,
the bottomless pit,
the dwelling place of demons,
Sheol, Gehenna, Hades….
FOR MORE:
References to Hell …at BlueLetterBible
There is a broad road that says Heaven but goes to Hell
Who In Hell Do You Think You Are?
The one-off offer Jesus makes to everyone
Freed from a righeous “God Damn”
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