Top 25 Bible Verses About Sheol (ESV)

10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

10   For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol,
    or let your holy one see corruption.

19 “There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. 24 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.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ 27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house—28 for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”

2 saying,

  “I called out to the LORD, out of my distress,
    and he answered me;
  out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
    and you heard my voice.

15   Let death steal over them;
    let them go down to Sheol alive;
    for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.

23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.

13   For great is your steadfast love toward me;
    you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

13   Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,
    that you would conceal me until your wrath be past,
    that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

14   I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol;
    I shall redeem them from Death.
  O Death, where are your plagues?
    O Sheol, where is your sting?
    Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

2   “If they dig into Sheol,
    from there shall my hand take them;
  if they climb up to heaven,
    from there I will bring them down.

5   For in death there is no remembrance of you;
    in Sheol who will give you praise?

9   As the cloud fades and vanishes,
    so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;

35 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.

31 he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

27   For you will not abandon my soul to Hades,
    or let your Holy One see corruption.

18 and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

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

18   For Sheol does not thank you;
    death does not praise you;
  those who go down to the pit do not hope
    for your faithfulness.

9   Sheol beneath is stirred up
    to meet you when you come;
  it rouses the shades to greet you,
    all who were leaders of the earth;
  it raises from their thrones
    all who were kings of the nations.

15   But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol,
    for he will receive me. Selah

6 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.

24   The path of life leads upward for the prudent,
    that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.

13   They spend their days in prosperity,
    and in peace they go down to Sheol.

12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”