Matthew 22:13
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Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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Then said the king to the servants--the angelic ministers of divine vengeance (as in Mat 13:41). Bind him hand and foot--putting it out of his power to resist. and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness--So Mat 8:12; Mat 25:30. The expression is emphatic--"the darkness which is outside." To be "outside" at all--or, in the language of Rev 22:15, to be "without" the heavenly city, excluded from its joyous nuptials and gladsome festivities--is sad enough of itself, without anything else. But to find themselves not only excluded from the brightness and glory and joy and felicity of the kingdom above, but thrust into a region of "darkness," with all its horrors, this is the dismal retribution here announced, that awaits the unworthy at the great day. there--in that region and condition. shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. See on Mat 13:42.
Open source ↗22:13 Weeping and gnashing of teeth express the intense pain and sorrow that result from condemnation for sin and unbelief (see 8:12; 13:42, 50; 24:51; 25:30). • Outer darkness is a metaphor for eternal punishment.
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But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out.
These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.