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Immortality--Where does it come From?

By Alive, February 7, 2022

Eternal Life
Regarding 'destruction' and its context vis a vis those outside of Christ when taken across the entire bible a stronger case exists that it results in a cessation of existence.
Immortality comes from Christ (God). Nowhere is it stated that those unregenerate inherit immortality. On the contrary, Paul is very clear on this in Cor. 15.
Those outside of Christ suffer the corruption that earns death and then death itself is destroyed.
There are two poles regarding ontology; Life and Death. That which lives and that which dies.
In order to get where some wish to--you have to have God give immortality to the dead, corrupting, evil that remains outside of Christ subsequent to "all things being summed up in Christ".
This contradiction needs to be addressed.
Are all things 'summed up In Christ' or is something else that is eternal exist outside of Christ somewhere?
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A View of Eternity!

By Alive, February 7, 2022

Eternity--Two Views
What can we learn from scripture about God Almighty’s view of eternity?
I hope that his will at least make for some further examination. This little bit is woefully incomplete, but may still generate additional relevant conversation.
Starting in Genesis we find that He created man from the dust of the earth and breathed life into him and he became a living soul.
Gen. 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man of adust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and bman became a living 1being.
1Cor. 15:45 So also it is written, “The first aMAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL.” The blast Adam became a clife-giving spirit.
Man was set in a the garden of Eden where there was the ‘tree of Life’. As we know Adam sinned and was barred from the tree of life. God revealed something to us then when he took action that prevented Adam from gaining immortality in a sinful evil state. That thought was abhorrent to God. His fate was rather to die and not have immortality.
Gen. 3:22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of aUs, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from bthe tree of life, and eat, and live forever” —
From here let’s look at Noah and the flood account. From this we can learn something further. What was God’s solution? It was to cleanse or blot out the evil and start from scratch with a new earth and its inhabitants.
Gen. 6:6 aThe LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was bgrieved 1in His heart. 7 The LORD said, “aI will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land,

Let’s move forward to some verses in the NT.
Paul wrote to Timothy to instruct him, thus and to the Ephesians.
2Tim. 1:9 who has asaved us and bcalled us with a holy ccalling, dnot according to our works, but according to His own bpurpose and grace which was granted us in eChrist Jesus from fall eternity,
Eph. 1:9 He 1amade known to us the mystery of His will, baccording to His 2kind intention which He cpurposed in Him 10 with a view to an administration 1suitable to athe fullness of the times, that is, bthe summing up of all things in Christ, things 2in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him
In Timothy, we see clearly that God’s plan of and for Christ was from eternity past and in Ephesians we see something of what this looks like in eternity future.
All things, in the end, will be summed up ‘In Christ’. This is very important. All things!
God’s view of eternity does not include evil. Evil and death that comes from it will be blotted out so that what is left is ‘In Christ’ and of Christ.
We need to consider this. How can all things be summed up in Christ and yet there be a place in eternity where sin, evil, torment and remembrance of those things be present?
God did not want Adam living forever in a sinful state. Evil cannot live forever in God’s eternity.
This is why God became flesh and paid the price in full and redeemed the creation from all of the affects of rebellion.
What is Life? What is Eternal Life? There is only one and that is God and Christ Life.
John 3:36 “He who abelieves in the Son has eternal life; but he who bdoes not 1obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”
John 5:26 “For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He agave to the Son also to have life in Himself;
1John 5:11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us aeternal life, and bthis life is in His Son.
God did not allow Adam to eat of Christ and thus live forever in an evil state.
So, if we are to accept a place in eternity where evil exists without ceasing what we have is a duality that includes both evil and that which is ‘Christ and God all in all’.
1Cor. 15:27 For aHE HAS PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET. But when He says, “bAll things are put in subjection,” it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him. 28 When aall things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that bGod may be all in all.
We are examining two disparate views of eternity.
One that includes evil in the form of eternally suffering beings along with ‘all things summed up in Christ’ and one that has ‘all things summed up in Christ’.
How does the one reconcile with the other.
Are all things ‘summed up in Christ’ in God’s eternity or not? This is a straight forward question and must be dealt with.
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A bunch of words....God Bless

By Alive, February 7, 2022

Alive's Contribution
Preface added on 2-07-22:
In addition to this convenient study of words and where they are found in your bible, if the reader does a simple search on this forum of the word 'sheol', you will find amny conversations that may help.
God Bless
I think hell is not a literal place, but rather an illustration of death and destruction and separation from God.
There will indeed be suffering for every unredeemed soul. For certain at the judgement day and possible some after in relative fashion.
We must always remember context. Understand how the Jews related to Gehenna, Sheol, etc. Jesus was speaking to those Jews.
Gehenna--a dump where refuse and dead babies were burned.
Sheol--the grave.
Hades---now there is one to study on.
Eternal punishment can mean a 'perishing' that has no end. Once done its done. Forever separated from God and any inheritance of Christ that the Father offered.
Eternal physical and mental torture? This is not the character of the God I have come to know.

Yup---words are important and especially those words spoken by Jesus Himself. Do you agree.
Look at the many times that word for 'perish' is used. That word has meaning and the Holy Spirit chose to use it.
I only ask that you consider those verses and then ask the Lord, if what much of what christendom has taught for many years, may be false.
There are simply far more scriptures that deal with ultimate fate that mention a ceasing to exist/destruction, than those that seem to say the ultimate fate of the unredeemed are tortured for eternity.
Rightly dividing the word. I have only attempted to do this.

Imagine for a moment a person burning in flames for one full minute.
Now imagine for an entire 10 full minutes.
Imagine what would be happening within the mind of that person and how they would deal with that torment.
Now imagine for a moment that same individual experiencing said pain for a full 30 days without respite.
What state would that person be in after such time.
A complete physical and psychic shut down?
This is what would happen in some fashion, if it were possible, to keep a person alive and conscious under that kind of torment/pain for even 30 days.
Considering this--and eternity---no never mind--how about 10 years. A mere blip in eternity.
Can you picture a loving God, who is indeed a God of justice--somehow keeping that individual alive and conscious with an intact nervous system in order for that torment to continue. To continue on and on without ceasing?
Try to imagine these things and assign this to my God and yours. The Lord Jesus Christ who suffered and died for you and me and indeed the world.
Do you know what the word 'Logos' means? One aspect of that word and as it pertains to Christ the Son of God can be considered and is indeed...the following. The 'Word' is the rational and reasonable reason for all things. He is and embodies all of what the Father means and expresses.
Does this eternal torture seem reasonable? Keep in mind that we were made in His image with the same reasonable faculties--although in finite and shadowy terms.

Many Christians don't believe the Bible teaches that hell is a place of eternal torture.
I am one of these. There is no way that the God I have come to know would torture for eternity a being who did not ask to be born into a sinful race.
There is eternal Life 'In Christ' and there is a final 'death'. A perishing. Hell or Gehenna was very well understood as a trash heap outside the gates of Jerusalem where the smoke of dead carcasses and refuse rises continually.
I suggest that you set your heart to study this and in the meantime, be at peace. Our God--your God--is a being of justice not injustice.
Would any man that is not insane consign another to eternal torture? Of course not. How then could a loving and just God do that?
The popular doctrine of hell and eternal torture is a doctrine of devils designed to drive men from God.

I suggest to anyone to simply ask God, if He is going to torture people endlessly.
Does the Spirit in you think that would be justice?

I suspect that when the unsaved face the judgement seat and realize what they have lost, there will be a kind of suffering of being that is quite severe. The psychic blow will be worse than any can imagine.
end of added preface--------------------------------------------------
I put this together so that folks interested can enjoy this study. I hope that it is profitable.
I should mention that no study of a particular word or idea presented in scripture can be taken in a vacuum. The 'Truth' is always available within the 'whole' of God's written word. A purely scholarly approach is seldom sufficient. However, we have the Holy Spirit--the 'Paraclete' helper that we are told will lead us into all truth.
Some subjects can be divisive, but don't have to be. As His sons, we all seek the Truth. This can be difficult because there are over 2000 years worth of honest and different opinions as well as clear heresy. I pray, in all cases, that the Lord is real to us as the 'Head' of His Church--His Body.
John 16:13 “But when He, athe Spirit of truth, comes, He will bguide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

The word ‘Sheol’ is mentioned 65 times in the Old Testament. If you search for it in the KJV, you won’t find it at all. The actual word sheol is translated incorrectly to ‘hell’ 54 times.
And the remaining 11 times as either grave or pit. The actual word in the original each time is ‘sheol’.
vְאוֹל (šᵉʾôl), Sheol, netherworld (H8619).
ANE Sum./Akk. attest šuʾāru or a proposed šuʾālû (cf. AHw, 1255b), but most scholars reject any connection between them and Heb. שְׁאוֹל (Heidel, The Gilgamesh Epic, 173). Inasmuch as the lexeme occurs nowhere else in ancient Sem. texts, it seems clear so far that the term is a Heb. isogloss.
OT This term for the abode of the dead occurs 65x in the Heb. OT, 61x rendered ᾅδης (G87) in LXX and 61x infernum or inferi in Vg. All attempts to recover its etymology have failed (cf. HALAT 1274). Its collocation with ‏אֲבַדֹּה‎ / ‏עֲבַדּוֹן‎ (Prov 27:20; 15:11) and parallelism with ‏בּוֹר‎ (Isa 14:15) and ‏מָוֶת‎ (Ps 89:48 [49]; Prov 5:5; 7:27; Song of Songs 8:6) make it clear that ‏שְׁאוֹל‎ designates both the grave and the netherworld, particularly the latter. It is a favorite term in poetry and Wisdom literature (35x) and occurs several times in both Isaiah (9x) and Ezekiel (5x) as well.
1. Fundamentally, ‏שְׁאוֹל‎ is a place, one beneath the earth’s surface to which people descend at death (Gen 37:35; Job 7:9; Ezek 31:15, 17; 32:27) or even while still alive (Num 16:33; Ps 55:15 [16]). The common use of ‏יָרַד‎ with the hi. suggests that people go to ‏שְׁאוֹל‎ also against their will; they are brought down to that place (Gen 42:38; 44:29, 31; 1 Sam 2:6; 1 Kgs 2:6, 9; Ezek 31:16). Ultimately it is Yahweh who causes them to go down, but he also has it in his power to bring them forth again (1 Sam 2:6; cf. Isa 26:19). Whether the grave or the netherworld is in view, ‏שְׁאוֹל‎ speaks of the deepest depths, the antithesis of the highest heavens (Job 11:8; cf. Prov 9:18). Like ‏מָוֶת‎ it is a dwelling place, one approached through gates and covered everywhere with dust (Job 17:16; Isa 38:10).
2. As a personification, ‏שְׁאוֹל‎ is a fearsome enemy. With ropes (2 Sam 22:6 = Ps 18:4 [5]) it drags its victims down (Job 24:19) into its very mouth (Ps 141:7). It is a cruel despot (Song of Songs 8:6), capable of carrying out its evil designs because of its irresistible power (Ps 89:48 [49]). Jonah, though in the belly of the fish, metaphorically saw himself also to be in the belly of Sheol (Jonah 2:2 [3]).
3. God cannot be frustrated by ‏שְׁאוֹל‎, however, but is able to direct the wise away from it (Prov 15:24) and to deliver his saints from its maraudings (Ps 86:13). It [Vol. 4, p. 7] may take discipline to steer the recalcitrant child from heading to ‏שְׁאוֹל‎ (Prov 23:14), but even those who end up there have the hope of being redeemed (‏פָּדָה‎ H7009) from its grasp and brought back to life (Ps 49:15 [16]).
4. The most elaborate OT descriptions of the netherworld appear in Isaiah and Ezekiel. Isaiah, speaking of the king of Babylon in the guise of Helel ben Shacher, prophesies his fall from the heights to the depths, to Sheol (Isa 14:15 || ‏בּוֹר‎). There the occupants will marvel at his radical reversal of fortune (vv. 16–18). Ezekiel condemns Pharaoh in a similar manner, consigning him to Sheol, the place of the pit (‏בּוֹר‎) and the lowest parts of earth (‏אֶרֶץ תַּחְתִּית‎, Ezek 31:16). It is the realm of the uncircumcised (v. 18), a way of describing Gentile sinners especially (cf. 32:21). The dead there have an existence of some kind, though their description as “shades” (‏רְפָאִים) (Isa 14:9) makes it clear that theirs is a weak and unrewarding style of life (14:10). There is no hope of deliverance from Sheol or the grave unless God himself should graciously intervene, a possibility hinted at here and there in the OT record (Ps 16:10; 49:15 [16]; 56:13 [14]; 86:13). Full assurance of victory over Sheol must await the revelation of the NT witness (1 Cor 15:50–58).
Gen. 37:35 Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “Surely I will ago down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
Gen. 42:38 But 1Jacob said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his abrother is dead, and he alone is left. bIf harm should befall him on the journey 2you are taking, then you will cbring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
Gen. 44:29 ‘If you take this one also from 1me, and harm befalls him, you will abring my gray hair down to Sheol in 2sorrow.’
Gen. 44:31 when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die. Thus your servants will abring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
Num. 16:30 “But aif the LORD 1brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they bdescend alive into 2Sheol, then you will understand that these men have spurned the LORD.”
Num. 16:33 So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to 1Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.
Deut. 32:22 aFor a fire is kindled in My anger,
And burns to the lowest part of 1Sheol,
bAnd consumes the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
1Sam. 2:6 “aThe LORD kills and makes alive;
bHe brings down to 1Sheol and raises up.
2Sam. 22:6 aThe cords of 1Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.
1Kings 2:6 “aSo act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray hair go down to 1Sheol in peace.
1Kings 2:9 “Now therefore, do not let him go unpunished, afor you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you will bring his gray hair down to 1Sheol with blood.”
Job 7:9 “When a acloud vanishes, it is gone,
So bhe who goes down to cSheol does not come up.
Job 11:8 “They are ahigh as 1the heavens, what can you do?
Deeper than 2bSheol, what can you know?
Job 14:13    “Oh that You would hide me in 1Sheol,
That You would conceal me auntil Your wrath returns to You,
That You would set a limit for me and remember me!
Job 17:13 “If I look for aSheol as my home,
I 1make my bed in the darkness;
Job 17:16 “1Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together ago down into the dust?”
Job 21:13 “They aspend their days in prosperity,
And 1suddenly they go down to 2Sheol.
Job 24:19 “Drought and heat 1aconsume the snow waters,
So does 2bSheol those who have sinned.
Job 26:6 “Naked is 1aSheol before Him,
And 2bAbaddon has no covering.
Job 33:18 He akeeps back his soul from the pit,
And his life from 1passing over binto Sheol.
Psa. 6:5 For athere is no 1mention of You in death;
In 2Sheol who will give You thanks?
Psa. 9:17    The wicked will 1areturn to 2Sheol,
Even all the nations who bforget God.
Psa. 16:10 For You awill not abandon my soul to 1Sheol;
Nor will You 2ballow Your 3Holy One to 4undergo decay.
Psa. 18:5 The acords of 1Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.
Psa. 30:3 O LORD, You have abrought up my soul from 1Sheol;
You have kept me alive, 2that I would not bgo down to the pit.
Psa. 31:17 Let me not be aput to shame, O LORD, for I call upon You;
Let the bwicked be put to shame, let them cbe silent in 1Sheol.
Psa. 49:14 As sheep they are appointed afor 1Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the bupright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for 1Sheol cto consume
2So that they have no habitation.
15 But God will aredeem my soul from the 1power of 2Sheol,
For bHe will receive me. Selah.
Psa. 55:15 Let 1death come adeceitfully upon them;
Let them bgo down alive to 2Sheol,
For evil is in their dwelling, in their midst.
Psa. 86:13 For Your lovingkindness toward me is great,
And You have adelivered my soul from the 1depths of 2Sheol.
Psa. 88:3 For my asoul has 1had enough troubles,
And bmy life has drawn near to 2Sheol.
Psa. 89:48 What man can live and not asee death?
Can he bdeliver his soul from the 1power of 2Sheol? Selah.
Psa. 116:3 The acords of death encompassed me
And the 1terrors of 2Sheol 3came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow.
Psa. 139:8 aIf I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in 1Sheol, behold, bYou are there.
Psa. 141:7 As when one aplows and breaks open the earth,
Our bbones have been scattered at the cmouth of 1Sheol.

Prov. 1:12 Let us aswallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who bgo down to the pit;
Prov. 5:5 Her feet ago down to death,
Her steps take hold of Sheol.
Prov. 7:27 Her ahouse is the way to Sheol,
Descending to the chambers of death.
Prov. 9:18 But he does not know that the 1dead are there,
That her guests are in the adepths of Sheol.
Prov. 15:11 1aSheol and 2Abaddon lie open before the LORD,
How much more the bhearts of 3men!
Prov. 15:24 The apath of life leads upward for the wise
That he may keep away from 1Sheol below.
Prov. 23:14 You shall 1strike him with the rod
And arescue his soul from Sheol.
Prov. 27:20 1aSheol and 2Abaddon are bnever satisfied,
Nor are the ceyes of man ever satisfied.
Prov. 30:16 1aSheol, and the bbarren womb,
Earth that is never satisfied with water,
And fire that never says, “Enough.”

Eccl. 9:10   Whatever your hand finds to do, ado it with all your might; for there is no bactivity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in cSheol where you are going.

Song 8:6 “Put me like a 1seal over your heart,
Like a aseal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death,
2bJealousy is as severe as Sheol;
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
3The very flame of the LORD.

Is. 5:14 Therefore aSheol has enlarged its 1throat and opened its mouth without measure;
And 2Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it.
Is. 7:11 “Ask a asign for yourself from the LORD your God; 1make it deep as Sheol or high as 2heaven.”
Is. 14:9 “aSheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come;
It arouses for you the 1spirits of the dead, all the 2leaders of the earth;
It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.
Is. 14:11 ‘Your apomp and the music of your harps
Have been brought down to Sheol;
Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you
And worms are your covering.’
Is. 14:15 “Nevertheless you awill be thrust down to Sheol,
To the recesses of the pit.
Is. 28:15 Because you have said, “We have made a acovenant with death,
And with 1Sheol we have made a 2pact.
bThe overwhelming 3scourge will not reach us when it passes by,
For we have made cfalsehood our refuge and we have dconcealed ourselves with deception.”
Is. 28:18 “Your acovenant with death will be 1bcanceled,
And your pact with Sheol will not stand;
When the aoverwhelming scourge passes through,
Then you become its ctrampling place.
Is. 38:10 I said, “aIn the middle of my 1life
I am to enter the bgates of Sheol;
I am to be cdeprived of the rest of my years.”
Is. 38:18 “For aSheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down bto the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
Is. 57:9 “You have journeyed to the king with oil
And increased your perfumes;
You have asent your envoys a great distance
And made them go down to 1Sheol.

Ezek. 31:15   ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “On the day when it went down to Sheol I acaused lamentations; I closed the 1deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon 2mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it. 16 “I made the nations aquake at the sound of its fall when I made it bgo down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the 1well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of cLebanon, were dcomforted in the earth beneath. 17 “They also awent down with it to Sheol to those who were bslain by the sword; and those who were its 1strength lived cunder its shade among the nations.
Ezek. 32:21 “The astrong among the mighty ones shall speak of him and his helpers from the midst of Sheol, ‘They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’
Ezek. 32:27 “aNor do they lie beside the fallen 1bheroes of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were laid under their heads; but the punishment for their ciniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these 1heroes was once in the land of the living.

Hos. 13:14 Shall I aransom them from the 1power of Sheol?
Shall I redeem them from death?
bO Death, where are your thorns?
O Sheol, where is your sting?
cCompassion will be hidden from My sight.

Amos 9:2 “Though they dig into aSheol,
From there will My hand take them;
And though they bascend to heaven,
From there will I bring them down.

Jonah 2:2 and he said,
“I acalled out of my distress to the LORD,
And He answered me.
I cried for help from the 1depth of bSheol;
You heard my voice.

Hab. 2:5 “Furthermore, awine betrays the bhaughty man,
So that he does not cstay at home.
He denlarges his appetite like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He also gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples.

The word Gehenna in the New Testament is translated as ‘hell’ 12 times. This is incorrect as it should be translated correctly as the ‘valley of the sons of Hinnom’.
This is not my opinion--it is a matter of the word from the original text.

1067. γέεννα; gēnna (others would accent gēnna, deriving it through the Chaldee. In Mark 9:45 Rec.st gēna), gēnēs (Buttmann, 17 (15)), hē, (from gê hinnom, Neh. 11:30; more fully gê ben hinnom, Josh. 15:8; 18:16; 2 Chr. 28:3; Jer. 7:32; gê bĕnê hinnom, 2 Kings 23:10 Kethibh; Chaldean gĕhinām, the valley of the son of lamentation, or of the sons of lamentation, the valley of lamentation, hinnom being used for nihom lamentation; see Hiller, Onomasticum; cf. Hitzig (and Graf) on Jer. 7:31; (Böttcher, De Inferis, i., p. 82ff); accusative to the common opinion hinnom is the name of a man), Gehenna, the name of a valley on the south and east of Jerusalem (yet apparently beginning on the Winer’s Grammar, cf. Josh. 15:8; Pressel in Herzog, under the word), which was so called from the cries of the little children who were thrown into the fiery arms of Moloch (which see), i.e. of an idol having the form of a bull. The Jews so abhorred the place after these horrible sacrifices had been abolished by king Josiah (2 Kings 23:10), that they cast into it not only all manner of refuse, but even the dead bodies of animals and of unburied criminals who had been executed. And since fires were always needed to consume the dead bodies, that the air might not become tainted by the putrefaction, it came to pass that the place was called gēnna tou puros (this common explanation of the descriptive genitive tou puros is found in Rabbi David Kimchi (fl. circa A. D. 1200) on Ps. 27:13. Some suppose the genitive to refer not to purifying fires but to the fires of Moloch; others regard it as the natural symbol of penalty (cf. Lev. 10:2; Num. 16:35; 2 Kings 1; Ps. 11:6; also Matt. 3:11; 13:42; 2 Thess. 1:8, etc.). See Böttcher, as above, p. 84; Meyer (Thol.) Wetstein (1752) on Matt. 5:22); and then this name was transferred to that place in Hades where the wicked after death will suffer punishment: Matt. 5:22,29f; 10:28; Luke 12:5; Mark 9:43,45; James 3:6; gēnna tou puros, Matt. 5:22; 18:9; Mark 9:47 (R G Tr marginal reading brackets); krisis tēs gēnnēs, Matt. 23:33; huios tēs gēnnēs, worthy of punishment in Gehenna, Matt. 23:15. Further, cf. Dillmann, Buch Henoch, 27, 1f, p. 131f; (B. D. American edition; Böttcher, as above, p. 80ff; Hamburger, Real-Encycl., Abth. I. under the word Hölle; Bartlett, Life and Death eternal, Appendix H.).*
GK G1147 | S G1067   γέεννα   geenna   12x
Gehenna, pr. the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, once celebrated for the horrid worship of Moloch, and afterwards polluted with every species of filth, as well as the carcasses of animals, and dead bodies of malefactors; to consume which, in order to avert the pestilence which such a mass of corruption would occasion, constant fires were kept burning; hence, hell, the fires of Tartarus, the place of punishment in Hades, Mt. 5:22, 29, 30; 10:28; 18:9, et al. → hell.

Matt. 5:22 “But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be 1guilty before athe court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘2You good-for-nothing,’ shall be 1guilty before 3bthe supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be 1guilty enough to go into the 4cfiery hell.
Matt. 5:29 “aIf your right eye makes you 1stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you 2to lose one of the parts of your body, 3than for your whole body to be thrown into 4bhell. 30 “aIf your right hand makes you 1stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you 2to lose one of the parts of your body, 3than for your whole body to go into 4bhell.
Matt. 10:28 “Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather afear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in 1bhell.
Matt. 18:9 “aIf your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than 1to have two eyes and be cast into the 2bfiery hell.
Matt. 23:15   “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one 1aproselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of 2bhell as yourselves.
Matt. 23:33 “You serpents, ayou brood of vipers, how 1will you escape the 2sentence of 3bhell?

Mark 9:43 “aIf your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into 1bhell, into the cunquenchable fire,
Mark 9:45 “If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than, having your two feet, to be cast into 1ahell,
Mark 9:47 “aIf your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into 1bhell,
Luke 12:5 “But I will 1warn you whom to fear: afear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into 2bhell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!

James 3:6 And athe tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which bdefiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our 1life, and is set on fire by 2chell.

The word translated in 2 Peter below as ‘hell’ is not correct. It is the word ‘tartaroo’ as shown below.

5020. ταρταρόω; tartaroō, tartarō: 1 aorist participle tartarōsas; (tartaros, the name of a subterranean region, doleful and dark, regarded by the ancient Greeks as the abode of the wicked dead, where they suffer punishment for their evil deeds; it answers to the Gehenna of the Jews, see gēnna); to thrust down to Tartarus (sometimes in the Scholiasts) (cf. Winer’s Grammar, 25 (24) n.); to hold captive in Tartarus: tina seirais (which see) sofou, 2 Pet. 2:4 (A.V. cast down to hell (making the dative depend on paredōken)).*

2Pet. 2:4   For aif God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and bcommitted them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;

The word ‘pit’ shows up in the NT in Revelation 9:1 and is translated from the original word frear.
5421. φρέαρ; frear, frearatos, to, from the Homer hymn Cer. 99 and Herodotus 6, 119 down; the Septuagint for bĕʾēr and (in 1 Sam. 19:22; 2 Sam. 3:26; Jer. 48:7,9 (Jer. 41:7,9) bôr (a pit, cistern), a well: Luke 14:5; John 4:11f; frear tēs abussou, the pit of the abyss (because the nether world is thought to increase in size the further it extends from the surface of the earth and so to resemble a cistern, the orifice of which is narrow), Rev. 9:1f.*

Rev. 9:1   Then the afifth angel sounded, and I saw a bstar from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the ckey of the 1dbottomless pit was given to him. 2 He opened the 1bottomless pit, and asmoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and bthe sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.
Additional study of the word translated as perish or destroy:

Perish used 22 times in the NT
Mounce Greek Dictionary (Greek Entry)

GK G660 | S G622   ἀπόλλυμι   apollymi   90x

to destroy utterly; to kill, Mt. 2:13; to bring to nought, make void, 1 Cor. 1:19; to lose, be deprived of, Mt. 10:42; to be destroyed, perish, Mt. 9:17; to be put to death, to die, Mt. 26:52; to be lost, to stray, Mt. 10:6 → destroy; lose; perish.

Matt. 5:29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

Matt. 8:25 Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”

Matt. 8:32   And He said to them, “Go.” So when they had come out, they went into the herd of swine. And suddenly the whole herd of swine ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and perished in the water.

Matt. 18:14 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Matt. 26:52   But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

Mark 4:38 But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”

Luke 8:24 And they came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!”

Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water. And they ceased, and there was a calm.

Luke 11:51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.

Luke 13:3 I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.

Luke 13:5 I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.”

Luke 13:33 Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem.

Luke 15:17   “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

John 3:15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

John 6:27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

John 10:28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.

John 11:50 nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.”

Acts 5:37 After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the census, and drew away many people after him. He also perished, and all who obeyed him were dispersed.

Acts 8:20   But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money!

Acts 13:41 “Behold, you despisers,
Marvel and perish!
For I work a work in your days,
A work which you will by no means believe,
Though one were to declare it to you.’ ”

Rom. 2:12   For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law

1Cor. 1:18   For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1Cor. 8:11 And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

1Cor. 15:18 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

2Cor. 2:15 For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

2Cor. 4:3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,

2Cor. 4:16   Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

Col. 2:22 which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

2Th. 2:10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Heb. 1:11 They will perish, but You remain;
And they will all grow old like a garment;

Heb. 11:31 By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.

James 1:11 For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. So the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.

1Pet. 1:7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

2Pet. 2:12   But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption,

2Pet. 3:6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.

2Pet. 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Jude 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Destroy used 36 times in the NT.
Thayer (Greek Entry)

2647. καταλύω; kataluō; future katalusō; 1 aorist katelusa; 1 aorist passive kateluthēn; 1 future passive 3 person singular kataluthēsetai; to dissolve, disunite (see, III. 4); a. (what has been joined together) equivalent to to destroy, demolish: lithous (A.V. throw down),

Matt. 2:13   Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.”

Matt. 5:17   “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.

Matt. 6:19   “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;

Matt. 10:28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matt. 12:14 Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.

Matt. 21:41   They said to Him, “He will destroy those wicked men miserably, and lease his vineyard to other vinedressers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons.”

Matt. 26:61 and said, “This fellow said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days.’ ”

Matt. 27:20   But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.

Matt. 27:40 and saying, “You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”

Mark 1:24 saying, “Let us alone! What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

Mark 3:6 Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.

Mark 9:22 And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

Mark 11:18   And the scribes and chief priests heard it and sought how they might destroy Him; for they feared Him, because all the people were astonished at His teaching.

Mark 12:9   “Therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and give the vineyard to others.

Mark 14:58 “We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.’ ”

Mark 15:29   And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who destroy the temple and build it in three days,

Luke 4:34 saying, “Let us alone! What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

Luke 6:9 Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy?”

Luke 9:56 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.” And they went to another village.

Luke 19:47   And He was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people sought to destroy Him,

Luke 20:16 He will come and destroy those vinedressers and give the vineyard to others.”

And when they heard it they said, “Certainly not!”

John 2:19   Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Acts 6:14 for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”

Rom. 14:15 Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.

Rom. 14:20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.

1Cor. 1:19 For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

1Cor. 3:17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

1Cor. 6:13 Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Gal. 1:13   For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.

Gal. 1:23 But they were hearing only, “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith which he once tried to destroy.”

2Th. 2:8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.

Heb. 2:14   Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

James 4:12 There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?

1John 3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

Rev. 11:18 The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come,
And the time of the dead, that they should be judged,
And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints,
And those who fear Your name, small and great,
And should destroy those who destroy the earth.”
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