Everlasting Punishment

The HarperCollins Bible Dictionary (Revised and Updated)

punishment, everlasting, the concept that after death an individual can be subjected to ongoing retribution for evil acts committed during life. The idea developed slowly over a long period of time. The ancient Hebrews, like other Semitic peoples of the ancient Near East, believed that at death the human

Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments

Hell, Abyss, Eternal Punishment

Hell, Abyss, Eternal PunishmentA belief in divine punishment after death was widespread in Jewish and Greco-Roman thought. In our literature one finds the specific expectation of everlasting torment by the one righteous God, directed against all who are outside of Christ. The canon of Scripture and

Harper’s Bible Dictionary

Punishment, Everlasting

Punishment, Everlastingpunishment, everlasting, the concept that after death an individual can be subjected to ongoing retribution for evil acts committed during life. The idea developed slowly over a long period of time. The ancient Hebrews, like the other Semitic peoples of the ancient Near East,

Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Punishment, Everlasting

PUNISHMENT, EVERLASTING — the final judgment of God upon the wicked. The classic example of eternal punishment in the Old Testament is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 19:15–28). While speaking about wicked angels who are being held in “everlasting chains,” the writer of Jude in the New Testament

A Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels: Aaron–Zion

Eternal Fire

ETERNAL FIRE.—An expression twice used by Christ in reference to the future punishment of the wicked. In Mt 18:8 βληθῆναι εἰς τὸ πῦρ τὸ αἰώνιον stands in contrast to εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν ζωήν; and from Mt 25:41 we learn that this eternal fire, into which the wicked are to be cast, was prepared

Eternal Punishment

ETERNAL PUNISHMENT.—RV of Mt 25:46 (εἰς κὁλασιν αἰώνιον). The AV here and in 26 other passages has ‘everlasting.’ The adjective αἰώνιος occurs 70 times in the NT (1 Ti 6:19 omitted in RV), and in the RV, with one exception (Philem 15), is uniformly rendered ‘eternal.’ This is a distinct gain, as

Dictionary of Theological Terms

Endless Punishment

Endless PunishmentThe doctrine of Scripture that the finally unrepentant will be punished for their sin forever in hell. The same terminology is used to describe the everlasting duration of hell’s punishments and to describe the everlasting duration of eternal life (Matt. 25:46 speaks of both). Nowhere

Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Everlasting Punishment

EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT God’s unending punishment of sinners beyond this life is known as eternal punishment. The Bible teaches that unrepentant, unforgiven sinners will be punished (Dan. 12:2; Matt. 10:15; John 5:28–29; Rom. 5:12–21). The unending nature of this punishment is emphasized in Scripture

The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 4, M–P

Punishment, Eternal

punishment, eternal. This specific phrase occurs once, namely, in Jesus’ parable of the sheep and the goats: “Then they will go away to eternal punishment [eis kolasin aiōnion], but the righteous into eternal life [eis zōēn aiōnion]” (Matt. 25:46; the KJV, apparently for the sake of stylistic variety,

Evangelical Dictionary of Theology

Eternal Punishment

Eternal Punishment. Sin will be punished (Dan. 12:2; Matt. 10:15; John 5:28–29; Rom. 5:12–21), with the duration of this punishment sometimes expressed in the NT by aiōn or one of its derivatives (e.g., Matt. 18:8; 25:41, 46; 2 Thess. 1:9). Aiōn means “old age,” and it was used of the never-ending “age

The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia, Volumes 1–5

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