Matthew 25:46 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 25:46

And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.

KJV

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

Let the thoughtful reader observe that punishments are eternal, and that that continuing life has thenceforward no fear of fall.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Epiphanius Scholasticus

INTERPRETATION OF THE GOSPELS 38 (510)

You see, my beloved, there is no excuse for it. They knew what they had to do in this world. But greed and ill-will prevented them, so they laid up for themselves not treasures for the future but the world of the dead. Neither were …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life everlasting - Either therefore the punishment is strictly eternal, or the reward is not: the very same expression being applied to the former as to the latter. The Judge will speak first to the righteous, in the audience of the wicked.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment - No appeal, no remedy, to all eternity! No end to the punishment of those whose final impenitence manifests in them an eternal will and desire to sin. By dying in a settled opposition to God, they cast themselves into a necessity of continuing in an eternal aversion from him.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

In these verses our Lord Jesus Christ describes the judgment day, and some of its leading circumstances. There are few passages in the whole Bible more solemn and heart-seaching than this. May we read it with the deep and serious attention which it deserves. Let us mark in the first place who will be the judge in the last day. We read that it will be “the Son of Man” Jesus Christ himself.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἀπελεύσονται	apeleusontai	will go away	G565 →
οὗτοι	houtoi	these	G3778 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
κόλασιν	kolasin	punishment	G2851 →
αἰώνιον,	aiōnion	eternal,	G166 →
οἱ	hoi	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	but	G1161 →
δίκαιοι	dikaioi	the righteous	G1342 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
ζωὴν	zōēn	life	G2222 →
αἰώνιον.¶	aiōnion	eternal.	G166 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 21:8
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 6:9–10
  Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
- Revelation 2:11
  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.
- Ephesians 5:5–6
  For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
- Revelation 22:15
  But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Revelation 20:14–15
  Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
Through
John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
leads to
- John 5:24
  Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
Through
Daniel 12:2
And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
leads to
- John 5:28–29
  Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice
- Isaiah 26:19
  Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her…