⁸ He will punish^(A) those who do not know God^(B) and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.^{(C) 9} They will be punished with everlasting destruction^(D) and shut out from the presence of the Lord^(E) and from the glory of his might^(F)

²² “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. ²³ In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.

²⁷ “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, ²⁸ for I have five brothers. Let him warn them,^(A) so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’

²⁷ Just as people are destined to die once,^(A) and after that to face judgment,^(B)

⁵ (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.^(A)

⁸ But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars^(A)—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.^(B) This is the second death.”^(C)

⁹ Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God?^(A) Do not be deceived:^(B) Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers^(C) nor men who have sex with men^{[a](D) 10} nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers^(E) will inherit the kingdom of God.

⁴ You adulterous^(A) people,^[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world^(B) means enmity against God?^(C) Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.^(D)

²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,^{(A) 30} slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;^{(B) 31} they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love,^(C) no mercy. ³² Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death,^(D) they not only continue to do these very things but also approve^(E) of those who practice them.