Is the expression "eternal death" in the New Testament?

In a church service last night, the preacher was contrasting eternal life with eternal death. Eternal life, he said, is heaven and eternal death is hell, or eternal separation from God. I've never heard the expression "eternal death"; I looked for it in the New Testament but wasn't able to find it. Does anyone know if it's there?

I've always thought of death as final and can't really grasp how it can be "eternal." Any thoughts?

You may find this video useful in your quest to understand what it means to perish, the opposite of eternal life in John 3:16.

Acts 20:26 NLT - "I declare today that I have been faithful. If anyone suffers eternal death, it's not my fault . . ."

I haven't seen the phrase "eternal death" in KJV. But, I suppose in the new translations and revisions you might find it there.

Eternal Damnation is a Biblical fact, no matter what name one attaches to it..

Matthew
25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
25:42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
25:43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
25:44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
25:45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of the least of these, ye did [it] not to me.
25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Not in keeping with the KJV

26) Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

just saying

Revelation 20:11-15 - And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. (Read More...)

Mark 16:16 - He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Matthew 25:41 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 125 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Matthew 25:41 ESV / 120 helpful votes
“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.
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 83 helpful votes
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Jude 1:7 ESV / 82 helpful votes
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Revelation 20:10 ESV / 75 helpful votes
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Romans 6:23 ESV / 68 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 3:16 ESV / 68 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
2 Thessalonians 1:9 ESV / 62 helpful votes
They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Matthew 23:33 ESV / 61 helpful votes
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
Mark 9:48 ESV / 59 helpful votes
‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’
Mark 9:43 ESV / 58 helpful votes
And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
Matthew 10:28 ESV / 57 helpful votes
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.
Revelation 20:15 ESV / 52 helpful votes
And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 14:11 ESV / 51 helpful votes
And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”
John 5:29 ESV / 51 helpful votes
And come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Matthew 18:8 ESV / 51 helpful votes
And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.
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Revelation 20:14 ESV / 50 helpful votes
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Revelation 19:20 ESV / 48 helpful votes
And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
John 3:36 ESV / 47 helpful votes
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 46 helpful votes
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
Matthew 5:22 ESV / 46 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
Jude 1:13 ESV / 43 helpful votes
Wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 42 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
Mark 3:29 ESV / 41 helpful votes
But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—
Daniel 12:2 ESV / 41 helpful votes
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Matthew 3:12 ESV / 40 helpful votes
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Matthew 13:50 ESV / 39 helpful votes
And throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Revelation 14:10 ESV / 37 helpful votes
He also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 37 helpful votes
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Mark 9:47 ESV / 37 helpful votes
And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,
Matthew 18:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes
And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.
Luke 12:5 ESV / 34 helpful votes
But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!
Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 33 helpful votes
Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.
Revelation 20:14-15 ESV / 32 helpful votes
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Malachi 4:1 ESV / 32 helpful votes
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
Isaiah 66:24 ESV / 32 helpful votes
“And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”
John 5:28-29 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Luke 16:23 ESV / 31 helpful votes
And in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
Matthew 23:15 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Matthew 13:41-42 ESV / 31 helpful votes
The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Psalm 9:17 ESV / 31 helpful votes
The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
James 3:6 ESV / 30 helpful votes
And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Luke 16:24 ESV / 29 helpful votes
And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’
Revelation 20:6 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 28 helpful votes
He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ...
Mark 9:45 ESV / 28 helpful votes
And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.
2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 26 helpful votes
In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Luke 3:17 ESV / 26 helpful votes
His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
Malachi 4:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes
And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.
Revelation 21:1 ESV / 25 helpful votes
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 3:10 ESV / 25 helpful votes
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
Luke 10:15 ESV / 25 helpful votes
And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.
Matthew 16:18 ESV / 25 helpful votes
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
2 Peter 2:6 ESV / 24 helpful votes
If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
Galatians 6:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Matthew 13:42 ESV / 24 helpful votes
And throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 8:12 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
While the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 24 helpful votes
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ...
Revelation 14:9-11 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”
Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.
Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 23 helpful votes
The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
Jeremiah 7:31 ESV / 23 helpful votes
And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
Genesis 3:4 ESV / 23 helpful votes
But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 22 helpful votes
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Revelation 20:13-15 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
2 Peter 2:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
John 3:16-17 ESV / 21 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Luke 23:43 ESV / 21 helpful votes
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
Proverbs 23:14 ESV / 21 helpful votes
If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
Revelation 1:18 ESV / 20 helpful votes
And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
Matthew 13:49-50 ESV / 20 helpful votes
So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Isaiah 47:14 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!

John 5:28 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
Luke 16:22 ESV / 19 helpful votes
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried,
Revelation 2:11 ESV / 18 helpful votes
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.’
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 18 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...
1 Peter 3:19 ESV / 18 helpful votes
In which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,
Acts 2:27 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.
Matthew 7:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
Matthew 5:30 ESV / 18 helpful votes
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
Psalm 145:20 ESV / 18 helpful votes
The Lord preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
Jude 1:12-13 ESV / 17 helpful votes
These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
Titus 1:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
1 Timothy 1:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes
To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 ESV / 17 helpful votes
In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 17 helpful votes
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, ...
Revelation 20:12-15 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Hebrews 12:29 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For our God is a consuming fire.
John 5:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Matthew 22:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Isaiah 33:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes
The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”
2 Peter 3:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
Mark 16:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Mark 9:45-47 ESV / 15 helpful votes
And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,
Ezekiel 28:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes
By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought fire out from your midst; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you.
Revelation 20:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
Revelation 1:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes
And made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 John 1:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Little elephant had lots of coffee this morning?

Mar_3:29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:

Eternal damnation is another way to say eternal judgment. All we have to do is find out what the eternal judgment is:

Rev_20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Rev_20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

The second death is the eternal judgment making it an eternal death.

In the Bible "the Second Death" is in fact eternal death.