Punishment of the Wicked, The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Psalms 64:7 OT

  But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

• Proverbs 29:1 OT

  He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

• Luke 12:20 NT

  “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

• 1 Thessalonians 5:3 NT

  For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

• Romans 2:6 NT

  who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

• Romans 2:9 NT

  oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

• 2 Corinthians 5:10 NT

  For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

• Luke 12:47 NT

  That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

• Luke 12:48 NT

  but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

• Matthew 11:21-24 NT

  “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and…

• Luke 10:13-15 NT

  “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and…

• Luke 16:23-26 NT

  In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my…

• Isaiah 66:24 OT

  “They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

• Mark 9:44 NT

  ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’

• Proverbs 11:21 OT

  Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

• Ecclesiastes 8:11 OT

  Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

• Numbers 26:10 OT

  and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.

• 1 Corinthians 10:6-11 NT

  Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” Let’s not…

• Matthew 25:46 NT

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

• Romans 2:5 NT

  But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

• Romans 2:16 NT

  in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

• 2 Peter 2:9 NT

  the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,