11 I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with ^qAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, 12 while the sons of the kingdom will be ^rthrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Temptations to Sin

42 ^t“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,^{1 u}it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. 43 ^vAnd if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell,² to the unquenchable fire.³ 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. 47 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to ^wenter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, 48 ^x‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’

The Rich Man and Lazarus

19 “There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side.¹ The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. 24 And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is ^ucomforted here, and you are in anguish. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ 27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ^v‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, ^wneither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”

Judgment on False Teachers

3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our ^dcommon salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain people have ^ecrept in unnoticed who ^flong ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into ^gsensuality and ^hdeny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, ⁱwho saved¹ a people out of the land of Egypt, ^jafterward destroyed ^kthose who did not believe. 6 ^lAnd the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— 7 ^mjust as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise ⁿindulged in sexual immorality and pursued ^ounnatural desire,² serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, ^preject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. 9 But when the ^qarchangel ^rMichael, contending with the devil, was disputing about ^sthe body of Moses, he ^tdid not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, ^u“The Lord rebuke you.” 10 ^vBut these people blaspheme all that ^wthey do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. 11 Woe to them! For they walked in ^xthe way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to ^yBalaam’s ^zerror and perished in ^aKorah’s rebellion. 12 ^bThese are hidden reefs³ at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, ^cshepherds feeding themselves; ^dwaterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; 13 ^ewild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

Judgment Before the Great White Throne

11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky ^kfled away, and ^lno place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and ^mbooks were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the ⁿbook of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. 13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, ^oDeath and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. 14 ^pThen Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.