Revelation 20:14
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New International Version (©2011)
Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. (This is the second death—the lake of fire.)

NET Bible (©2006)
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death--the lake of fire.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And Death and Sheol were cast into The Lake of Fire- this which is the second death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Death and hell were thrown into the fiery lake. (The fiery lake is the second death.)

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

American King James Version
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

American Standard Version
And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And hell and death were cast into the pool of fire. This is the second death.

Darby Bible Translation
and death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire.

English Revised Version
And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire.

Webster's Bible Translation
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Weymouth New Testament
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the Lake of fire; this is the Second Death--the Lake of fire.

World English Bible
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Young's Literal Translation
and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire -- this is the second death;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:11-15 After the events just foretold, the end will speedily come; and there is no mention of any thing else, before the appearing of Christ to judge the world. This will be the great day: the Judge, the Lord Jesus Christ, will then put on majesty and terror. The persons to be judged are the dead, small and great; young and old, low and high, poor and rich. None are so mean, but they have some talents to account for; and none so great, as to avoid having to account for them. Not only those alive at the coming of Christ, but all the dead. There is a book of remembrance both for good and bad: and the book of the sinner's conscience, though formerly secret, will then be opened. Every man will recollect all his past actions, though he had long forgotten many of them. Another book shall be opened, the book of the Scriptures, the rule of life; it represents the Lord's knowledge of his people, and his declaring their repentance, faith, and good works; showing the blessings of the new covenant. By their works men shall be justified or condemned; he will try their principles by their practices. Those justified and acquitted by the gospel, shall be justified and acquitted by the Judge, and shall enter into eternal life, having nothing more to fear from death, or hell, or wicked men; for these are all destroyed together. This is the second death; it is the final separation of sinners from God. Let it be our great concern to see whether our Bibles justify or condemn us now; for Christ will judge the secrets of all men according to the gospel. Who shall dwell with devouring flames?

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 14. - And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire; death and Hades (see on ver. 13). Lake of fire (see on ver. 10). This is described in accordance with St. Paul's teaching. "The last enemy that shall be abolished is death" (1 Corinthians 15:26, Revised Version). Death and Hades, though in reality abstractions, are here personified. This is the second death. Add [even] the lake of fire. St. John has not used the phrase, "the first death," but he has alluded to the fact. The first death is the actual death of the body, and which is the natural result of that spiritually dead state into which, since the Fall, man is horn, and which is therefore, as it were, his normal state. In a similar manner, the first resurrection is the risen spiritual life of conversion; while the second resurrection is the resurrection of all men, and the bestowal of eternal life upon the just.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire,.... Death cannot be taken properly, nor hell be the place of torment, for devils and damned spirits; since that is that lake of fire, for then the sense would be, hell is cast into hell; but either by these the devil is meant, who has the power of death, and is the prince of hell, were it not that the casting of him into this lake is mentioned before in Revelation 20:10 or it denotes the destruction and abolition of death and the grave, that from henceforth they should no more have power over men, nor have any under their dominion, and in their hands; and so what has been promised will now be fully performed, Hosea 13:14 see Revelation 21:4 or rather the wicked dead, which they shall have delivered up, and will be judged and sentenced to eternal death, Revelation 20:13

this is the second death; or the destruction of the soul and body in hell, which will consist in an eternal separation of both from God, and in a continual sense of his wrath and displeasure. The Alexandrian copy and the Complutensian edition read, "this second death is the lake of fire"; and so the Arabic version, "and this is the second death, even the lake of fire"; and not much different is the Ethiopic version, "the second death, which is the fire of hell".

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

14. Death and Hades, as personified representatives of the enemies of Christ' and His Church, are said to be cast into the lake of fire to express the truth that Christ and His people shall never more die, or be in the state of disembodied spirits.

This is the second death—"the lake of fire" is added in A, B, and Andreas. English Version, which omits the clause, rests on inferior manuscripts. In hell the ancient form of death, which was one of the enemies destroyed by Christ, shall not continue, but a death of a far different kind reigns there, "everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord": an abiding testimony of the victory of Christ.

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The Final Judgment
…13And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15And whoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
Revelation 1:18 I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
Revelation 2:11 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.
Revelation 6:8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Revelation 14:10 they, too, will drink the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
Revelation 19:20 But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
Revelation 20:10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Revelation 20:15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death' or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."