The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ “Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, enjoying himself in splendor every day. ²⁰ And a poor man named Lazarus ^(A)was laid at his gate, covered with sores, ²¹ and longing to be fed from the scraps which fell from the rich man’s table; not only that, the dogs also were coming and licking his sores. ²² Now it happened that the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to ^[a](B)Abraham’s arms; and the rich man also died and was buried. ²³ And in ^(C)Hades he raised his eyes, being in torment, and *saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his ^[b]arms. ²⁴ And he cried out and said, ‘^(D)Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in ^(E)this flame.’ ²⁵ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that ^(F)during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. ²⁶ And ^[c]besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set, so that those who want to go over from here to you will not be able, nor will any people cross over from there to us.’

⁴³ And He said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you will be with Me in ^(A)Paradise.”

⁸ but we are of good courage and ^(A)prefer rather to be absent from the body and ^(B)to be at home with the Lord.

²³ But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the ^(A)desire to depart and ^(B)be with Christ, for that is very much better;

⁷ and to give relief to you who are afflicted, along with us, ^[a](A)when the Lord Jesus will be revealed ^(B)from heaven ^(C)with ^[b]His mighty angels ^8 (D)in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who ^(E)do not know God, and to those who ^(F)do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. ⁹ These people will pay the penalty of ^(G)eternal destruction, ^(H)away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

⁶ And ^(A)angels who did not keep their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling place, these He has ^(B)kept in eternal restraints under darkness for the judgment of the great day,

⁷ just as ^(A)Sodom and Gomorrah and the ^(B)cities around them, since they in the same way as these angels indulged in sexual perversion and ^(C)went after ^[a]strange flesh, are exhibited as an ^[b](D)example in undergoing the ^(E)punishment of eternal fire.

Judgment at the Throne of God

¹¹ Then I saw a great white ^(A)throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose ^[a]presence ^(B)earth and heaven fled, and ^(C)no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, the ^(D)great and the small, standing before the throne, and ^[b](E)books were opened; and another ^[c]book was opened, which is ^(F)the book of life; and the dead ^(G)were judged from the things which were written in the ^[d]books, ^(H)according to their deeds. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and ^(I)Death and Hades ^(J)gave up the dead who were in them; and they were judged, each one of them ^(K)according to their deeds. ¹⁴ Then ^(L)Death and Hades were thrown into ^(M)the lake of fire. This is the ^(N)second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if ^[e]anyone’s name was not found written in ^(O)the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.