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Is “Purgatory” in the Bible?

No. “Purgatory” is not in the Bible. It is not in the Lumin Translation or the King James Bible.

Maintained by Andrew Kittridge Updated October 28, 2026 Editorial standards

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Is “Purgatory” in the Bible?

Not in the Bible

No. “Purgatory” is not in the Bible.

It is not in the Lumin Translation or the King James Bible.

Purgatory is not in the Bible. Catholic teaching draws the idea from passages such as 1 Corinthians 3:15 and 2 Maccabees 12. Protestant churches do not hold it.

In two Bibles

Lumin Translation: not found.

King James Version: not found.

Counted in the Lumin Translation, a modern English Bible, and the King James Version (1769), with the same index as the Bible word checker. Counts are of exact word forms.

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