Bible Verses About The Intermediate State

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

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And 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 tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

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And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

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And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

same passage with angels carrying Lazarus

And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

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And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.

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Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

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And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

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And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

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Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

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He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

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By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

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And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Judgment text for the dead according to deeds

And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Judgment text about Death and Hades thrown into the lake of fire

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

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For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

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But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

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Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

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For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

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Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

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And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Resurrection of just and unjust

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Death followed by judgment

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

passage often used for conscious presence with the Lord after death

For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

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Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

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Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

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For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

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They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

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Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

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Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

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Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

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His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

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They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

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But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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