"My question to you is there scriptural basis for what most Christians believe that those who are unsaved will go to hell? I understand there are many scriptures that show the fallen state of man and that we are all unworthy of the glory of Christ just on our own, but is there scriptural support specifically that says that if you are unsaved by the grace of Christ that you go to hell specifically? Scriptures that speak about being guilty and unworthy do not specifically state that all the guilty and unworthy will go to hell, that is the logic most Christians add to these scriptures."

Saywhatagain, there are many scriptures that support the Christian doctrine that the unsaved will go to hell.

Romans 6:20
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So the wages of sin is death. The unsaved, all those who are not in Christ, will have to pay for their own sins, and that payment will be death. Hell is called the "second death". Everyone faces the first death, whether believers or unbelievers, except those still alive when Christ returns (1 Thess. 4:17) but only unbelievers will face the second death or hell.

Revelation 20:14–15

14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:8

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.

But some of the key scriptures in understanding all this for me are:

Romans 10:
1Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. 2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. 4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

James 2:10
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.

1 Corinthians 1:30

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption.

Phillipians 3:9

And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—

2 Corinthians 5:21

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Isaiah 53:11

Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.

Galatians 2:16

Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Romans 4:3

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”

Romans 4:5

And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness.

Romans 4:8

Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”

Romans 10:4

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 3:21-26

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.


I've got to end this quick since my battery is going low, I can't find the charger, and I will lose this post if I don't send it. But I may come back with more thoughts later.