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Bible Verses About The Punishment of the Wicked

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  1. If I say to a wicked person, 'You will certainly die'; and you fail to warn him, to speak and warn the wicked person to leave his wicked way and save his life; then that wicked person will die guilty; and I will hold you responsible for his death.

  2. Look, all lives belong to me - both the parent's life and the child's life are equally mine - so it is the person who sins, himself, who must die.

  3. demands and accepts interest. Should he live? He will not live, because he has engaged in all these disgusting practices - he must be put to death; his blood is on him.

  4. The person who sins is the one that will die - a son is not to bear his father's guilt with him, nor is the father to bear his son's guilt with him; but the righteousness of the righteous will be his own, and the wickedness of the wicked will be his own.

  5. Many of those sleeping in the dust of the earth will awaken, some to everlasting life and some to everlasting shame and abhorrence.

  6. My people are destroyed for want of knowledge. Because you rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as cohen for me. Because you forgot the Torah of your God, I will also forget your children.

  7. The more they increased in number, the more they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

  8. They feed on the sin of my people and are greedy for their crimes.

  9. But the cohen will fare no better than the people; I will punish him for his ways and pay him back for his deeds.

  10. ADONAI also has a grievance against Y'hudah; he will punish Ya'akov according to his ways and pay him back for his misdeeds.

  11. "Of all the families on earth, only you have I intimately known. This is why I will punish you for all your crimes."

  12. That Day is a Day of fury, a Day of trouble and distress, a Day of waste and desolation, a Day of darkness and gloom, a Day of clouds and thick fog,

  13. If your right eye makes you sin, gouge it out and throw it away! Better that you should lose one part of you than have your whole body thrown into Gei-Hinnom.

  14. But those born for the Kingdom will be thrown outside in the dark, where people will wail and grind their teeth!"

  15. "Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Beit-Tzaidah! Why, if the miracles done in you had been done in Tzor and Tzidon, they would long ago have put on sackcloth and ashes as evidence that they had changed their ways.

  16. But I tell you it will be more bearable for Tzor and Tzidon than for you on the Day of Judgment!

  17. And you, K'far-Nachum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Sh'ol!b For if the miracles done in you had been done in S'dom, it would still be in existence today.

  18. But I tell you that on the Day of Judgment it will be more bearable for the land of S'dom than for you!"

  19. For the Son of Man will come in his Father's glory, with his angels; and then he will repay everyone according to his conduct.

  20. "You snakes! Sons of snakes! How can you escape being condemned to Gei Hinnom?

  21. Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and Torah-teachers -- some of them you will kill, indeed, you will have them executed on stakes as criminals; some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.

  22. And so, on you will fall the guilt for all the innocent blood that has ever been shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Hevel to the blood of Z'kharyah Ben-Berekhyah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

  23. Yes! I tell you that all this will fall on this generation

  24. "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, accompanied by all the angels, he will sit on his glorious throne.

  25. "Then he will also speak to those on his left, saying, `Get away from me, you who are cursed! Go off into the fire prepared for the Adversary and his angels!