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==In Christianity== Fire and brimstone frequently appear as agents of divine wrath throughout the Christian [[Book of Revelation]] culminating in chapters 19–21, wherein [[Satan]] and the ungodly are cast into a lake of fire burning with brimstone ({{Langx|el|λίμνην τοῦ πυρὸς τῆς καιομένης ἐν θείῳ}}, ''limnēn tou pyros tēs kaiomenēs en thei'').<ref>{{citation |url=https://intertextual.bible/text/isaiah-30.33-revelation-19.20 |title= intertextual.bible/text/isaiah-30.33-revelation-19.20}}</ref> The fire appears in such passages is "eternal," unlike the bodies or souls of people. {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%" |- !colspan="2"|English translations of verses mentioning brimstone in Christian New Testament (KJV) |- ! Location !! Text |- |Luke 17:29 |But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. |- |Revelation 9:17 |And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. |- |Revelation 9:18 |By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. |- |Revelation 14:10 |The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: |- |Revelation 19:20 |And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. |- |Revelation 20:10 |And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. |- |Revelation 21:8 |But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. |}
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