Purgatory

Question 1

1 Peter 4:6

Answer 1

For this is why the gospel was preached even to the dead, that though judged in the flesh like men, they might live in the spirit like God.

Question 2

Revelation 21:27

Answer 2

But nothing unclean shall enter it, nor any one who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Question 3

1 John 5:16-17

Answer 3

If any one sees his brother committing what is not a mortal sin, he will ask, and God will give him life for those whose sin is not mortal. There is sin which is mortal; I do not say that one is to pray for that. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which is not mortal.

Question 4

1 Corinthians 3:14-15

Answer 4

If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. if any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

Question 5

Matthew 12:32

Answer 5

And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

Question 6

2 Maccabees 12:46

Answer 6

Therefore he made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.

Question 7

2 Timothy 1:16-18

Answer 7

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me; he was not ashamed of my chains, but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me eagerly and found me – may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that Day – and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus.