The Sheep and the Goats

³¹ “When the Son of Man comes^(A) in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.^{(B) 32} All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate^(C) the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.^{(D) 33} He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

³³ “You snakes! You brood of vipers!^(A) How will you escape being condemned to hell?^(B)

⁴⁶ “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.^(A)”^(B)

²⁸ I give them eternal life,^(A) and they shall never perish;^(B) no one will snatch them out of my hand.^(C)

² For since the message spoken^(A) through angels^(B) was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment,^{(C) 3} how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation?^(D) This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord,^(E) was confirmed to us by those who heard him.^(F)

⁹ if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials^(A) and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.^(B)

¹⁴ Then death^(A) and Hades^(B) were thrown into the lake of fire.^(C) The lake of fire is the second death.^{(D) 15} Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life^(E) was thrown into the lake of fire.