Reference

Matthew 25:30

And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
28

Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.

29

For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

30

And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

31

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

32

And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

Why This Verse Was Tagged

Eternal Conscious Torment
Semantic Discovery
70% relevance

This verse was identified through meaning similarity — its content is mathematically close to known verses in this theme, even without sharing the same vocabulary.

Hell Terminology (Sheol/Hades/Gehenna/Lake of Fire)
Semantic Discovery
50% relevance

This verse was identified through meaning similarity — its content is mathematically close to known verses in this theme, even without sharing the same vocabulary.

Counter-Arguments

The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.

Eternal Conscious Torment

The verse describes a state of "outer darkness" with "weeping and gnashing of teeth," which implies suffering, but it does not explicitly state that this suffering is eternal or that the "unprofitable servant" remains conscious indefinitely.

Hell Terminology (Sheol/Hades/Gehenna/Lake of Fire)

The verse does not explicitly use any of the specific "Hell Terminology" (Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, Lake of Fire) mentioned in the theme definition, nor does it use the word "hell." The phrases "outer darkness" and "weeping and gnashing of teeth" could be interpreted as a state of severe punishment or exclusion without necessarily referring to a specific, named location of eternal torment.