Purgatory
Mt 5:48 - be perfect as your
heavenly Father is perfect
Heb 12:14 - strive for that holiness without which cannot see God
Jam 3:2 - we all fall short in many respects
Rev 21:27 - nothing unclean shall enter heaven
Jam 1:14-15 - when sin reaches maturity gives birth to death
2Sam 12:13-14 - David, though forgiven, still punished for his sin
Mt 5:26 - you will not be released until paid last penny
Mt 12:32 - sin against Holy Spirit unforgiven in this age or next
Mt 12:36 - account for every idle word of judgment day
2Macc 12:44-46 - atoned for dead to free them from sin
1Cor 3:15 - suffer loss, but saved as through fire
1Pet 3:18-20; 4:6 - Jesus preached to spirits in prison
2Tim 1:16-18 - Paul prays for dead friend Onesiphorus
I appreciate the Bible verses, as I do believe they are the very word of God; however, none of them convince me of an existence of purgatory.
I do believe the judgement day is a particular day coming, and then we are resurrected, and our bodies are reunited with our souls, and some go down to hell, and others to heaven.
However, in the interim, we read for example of the Rich Man and Lazarus. The Rich Man is in hell. And we go to the thief on the cross, who is told by Jesus, “Today you shall be with me in Paradise.”
So we see that dead men are in one place or the other.
As for Onesiphorus, I do not know that he was dead when Paul wrote 1st Timothy.