Paul never wrote the word. Perhaps he thought the Greek mythology surrounding the word "Hades" was irresponsible to his audience.Most all translations covered it up.
Every other time in the NT, where the word Hades was inscribed, the translators transposed the name Hell, except where Paul wrote it.
Paul's concept of what we call "hell" or the antithesis of the eternal life of John 3:16 was more consistent with a Hebraic understanding. Sheol broadly is a place of the dead and often Hades is seen as its parallel but this is not correct. In Greek mythology, Hades was an articulated and indiscriminate place of the dead with the god Hades as its ruler. In Biblical use, Hades is not ruled by the god Hades and it a discriminate place that we can be saved from through Christ; it is the antithesis of eternal life (the perish part).
The OT counterpart "Sheol" both is an unarticulated and an indiscriminate place of the dead. In context, it is used to describe broadly death and in terms of a resting place of the dead, it was used to describe the physical resting place but abstractly it was simply death with no other known detail of what happens beyond that.
So how does Paul agree with Sheol over other languages? He describes the wrong side of the coin as death (the wages of sin are death...) but to use specifically Sheol (unarticulated and indiscriminate) doesn't fit as Paul may have not articulated a place it was still discriminate. Hades (indiscriminate in mythology and discriminate in soteriology) also doesn't fit. James uses Gehenna (Hebrew mythology) often translated as "hell" and Peter uses Tartarus (more Greek mythology) also translated as hell.
All of these terms have compromises and I agree with Paul in not picking a word which then evokes all the mythology or baggage of the word. Paul uses death, not hell and I think that's a laudable approach consistent with Christ's teaching and goes back to the Eden. Paul also was writing to believers so his motivation was probably more aimed at the reward than the punishment.
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