And these shall go way into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
-Matthew 25:46
6. Eternal torment -a place of endless gnawing of conscience
Where their worm dieth not, and the
fire is not quenched.
-Mark 9:44
7. Everlasting grief and pain -a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth
joy)
There shall be weeping and gnashing
of teeth.
-Matthew 8: 12b
8. Everlasting destruction -a place of eternal dying.
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power.
-II Thessalonians 1:9
9. Eternal imprisonment - chained in everlasting chains
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
-Jude:6
10. Everlasting fire -a place of unquenchable burning
And if thy hand offend thee, cut if off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched.
-Mark 9:43
11. Everlasting darkness -a place of outer (total) darkness
But the children of the kingdom shall
be cast out into outer darkness.
-Matthew 8: 12a
12. Everlasting falling away -a bottomless pit
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and
the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
-Revelation 9:1-2
13. Eternal restlessness
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
-Revelation 14: II
How does the eternal aspect of each of these descriptions multiply their terribleness?
What do the following verses
mean?
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.