Luke 3:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned in the fire which will never be put out.

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  • Matt 13:30 : 30 Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.
  • Isa 30:24 : 24 And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.
  • Jer 15:7 : 7 And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.
  • Mic 4:12 : 12 But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.
  • Mark 9:43-49 : 43 And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire. 44 [] 45 And if your foot is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off: it is better for you to go into life with one foot than to have two feet and go into hell. 46 [] 47 And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell, 48 Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out. 49 Everyone will be salted with fire.
  • Ps 1:4 : 4 The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.
  • Ps 21:9-9 : 9 You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire. 10 Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

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  • Matt 3:10-13
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    10 And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

    11 Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:

    12 In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.

    13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be given baptism by him.

  • 16 John made answer, saying to them all, Truly, I give you baptism with water, but one is coming who is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit, and with fire:

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    39 And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels.

    40 As then the evil plants are got together and burned with fire, so will it be in the end of the world.

    41 The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong,

    42 And will put them into the fire; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

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    29 But he says, No, for fear that by chance while you take up the evil plants, you may be rooting up the grain with them.

    30 Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.

  • 9 And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire.

  • Isa 33:11-12
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    11 Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.

    12 And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.

  • 18 And so comforting them with these and other words, he gave the good news to the people;

  • 7 And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.

  • 19 Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire.

  • 1 For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

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    48 When it was full, they took it up on the sands; and seated there they put the good into vessels, but the bad they put away.

    49 So will it be in the end of the world: the angels will come and take out the bad from the good,

    50 And will put them into the fire: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

  • Rev 14:18-19
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    18 And another angel came out from the altar, who has power over fire; and he gave a loud cry to him who had the sharp curved blade, saying, Put in your sharp blade, and let the grapes of the vine of the earth be cut; for her grapes are fully ready.

    19 And the angel sent his blade into the earth, and the vine of the earth was cut, and he put it into the great wine-crusher of the wrath of God.

  • 6 If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

  • 15 For the Lord is coming with fire, and his war-carriages will be like the storm-wind; to give punishment in the heat of his wrath, and his passion is like flames of fire.

  • 10 To him will be given of the wine of God's wrath which is ready unmixed in the cup of his wrath and he will have cruel pain, burning with fire before the holy angels and before the Lamb:

  • Isa 41:15-16
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    15 See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.

    16 You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

  • 18 How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

  • 5 For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

  • 23 He who is not with me is against me, and he who will not give me help in getting people together is driving them away.

  • 49 I came to send a fire on the earth, and it may even now have been lighted.

  • 13 I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.

  • 30 Whoever is not with me is against me; and he who does not take part with me in getting people together, is driving them away.

  • 18 For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

  • 11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops in the waste land is blowing on the daughter of my people, not for separating or cleaning the grain;

  • 21 Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my wrath, and you will become soft in it.

  • 3 So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

  • 9 Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

  • 24 And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.

  • 48 Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out.

  • 2 He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.

  • 7 And he said to them all, There is one coming after me who is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo.

  • 7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

  • 24 For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • 3 For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

  • 2 But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.

  • 9 You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

  • 13 But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.

  • 28 Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.