Bible Memorization: Faith Hell, and End Times

As future priests, committing key Scripture passages to memory will equip you to teach, counsel, and minister effectively. The following passages from the ESV-CE relate directly to our study of the afterlife and should be memorized:

 

- Hebrews 9:27 – "And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment." - Romans 14:10b-12 – "For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; for it is written, 'As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.' So then each of us will give an account of himself to God."

 

- John 14:2-3 – "In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also." - Revelation 21:4 – "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."

 

- 1 Corinthians 3:15 – "If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire." - 2 Maccabees 12:46 – "Thus he made atonement for the dead that they might be absolved from their sin."

 

- Matthew 25:41 – "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.'" - Matthew 10:28 – "And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell."

 

- 1 Corinthians 15:52-53 – "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality." - Philippians 3:20-21 – "But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself."

 

- Revelation 21:1 – "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more." - 2 Peter 3:13 – "But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells."