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24 ayahs in Al-Baqara are strongly about Paradise and Hell. This is one of them.
Tafsir
Surely those who believe who believed before in the prophets and those of Jewry the Jews and the Christians and the Sabaeans a Christian or Jewish sect whoever from among them believes in God and the Last Day in the time of our Prophet and performs righteous deeds according to the Law given to him — their wage that is the reward for their deeds is with their Lord and no fear shall befall them neither shall they grieve the singular person of the verbs āmana ‘believes’ and ‘amila ‘performs’ takes account of the singular form of man ‘whoever’ but in what comes afterwards of the plural pronouns its plural meaning is taken into account.