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And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Clear judgment and destroying the destroyers of the earth
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Second death and lake of fire text
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Second death has no power over the blessed
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And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Second death text from Revelation 20:14
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Destruction of the ungodly in 2 Peter
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
Sodom as extinction example for ungodly
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
Wicked become ashes
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
Everlasting destruction wording
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
Transgressors destroyed together
So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
Separation of wicked from the just
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
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Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
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Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
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And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Direct fire-consumption text from Revelation 20
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
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But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
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Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
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That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
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He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
Second death not harming overcomers
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
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And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
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And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
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But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Fiery indignation devouring adversaries
Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
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And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Thrown into lake of fire
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
World perished by flood analogy