Answer: Those who have done evil will rise to be
condemned, (verse 29).
MORE INFORMATION AND/OR OTHER SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
Matthew 7:13-14: [Jesus said,]
"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and
broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through
it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to
life, and only a few find it."
See Matthew 25:31-46 in b above.
Mark 16:15-16: "He [Jesus] said to
them, 'Go into all the world and preach the Good News to all
creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but
whoever does not believe will be condemned.'"
John 3:16-18: [Jesus said,] "For
God so loved the world that He gave His One and Only Son, that
whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal
life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn
the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever
believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe
stands condemned already because he has not believed in the Name of
God's One and Only Son."
1 Corinthians 11:32: "When we are
judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be
condemned with the world."
Galatians 6:8: "The one who sows to
please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction;
the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap
eternal life."
Philippians 3:17-21: "Join with
others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those
who live according to the pattern we gave you. For, as I have
often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live
as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is
destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in
their shame. Their mind is on earthly things. But our
citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there,
the Lord Jesus Christ, Who, by the power that enables Him to bring
everything under His control, will transform our lowly bodies so
that they will be like His glorious body."
1 Thessalonians 5:1-3: "Now,
brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for
you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief
in the night. While people are saying, 'Peace and
safety,' destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor
pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape."
2 Thessalonians 1:8-10: "He will
punish those who do not know God and do not obey the Gospel of our
Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting
destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the
majesty of His power on the day He comes to be glorified in His
holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have
believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to
you."
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12: "And then
the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will
overthrow with the breath of His mouth and destroy by the splendor
of His coming. The coming of the lawless one will be in
accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of
counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil
that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they
refused to love the Truth and so be saved. For this reason
God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the
lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the
Truth but have delighted in wickedness."
2 Peter 2:9-10, 17: "if this is so,
then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold
the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their
punishment. This is especially true of those who follow the
corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise
authority...These men [false teachers] are springs without
water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved
for them."
Jude 1:5-7: "Though you already
know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord delivered His
people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not
believe. And the angels who did not keep their positions of
authority but abandoned their own home--these He has kept in
darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great
Day. In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding
towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They
serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal
fire."
