Luke 3:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

Whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

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  • Matt 13:30 : 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.
  • Isa 30:24 : 24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
  • Jer 15:7 : 7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they do not return from their ways.
  • Mic 4:12 : 12 But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, nor do they understand His counsel; for He shall gather them as sheaves into the threshing floor.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
  • Mark 9:43-49 : 43 And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched; 44 Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched; 46 Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. 47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire; 48 Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. 49 For everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
  • Ps 1:4 : 4 The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
  • Ps 21:9-9 : 9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall consume them. 10 You shall destroy their offspring from the earth, and their descendants from among the children of men.

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  • Matt 3:10-13
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    10And now also the axe is laid to the root of the trees: therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

    11I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire:

    12His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

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

  • Luke 3:16
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    16John answered, saying to them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I comes, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire:

  • Matt 13:39-42
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    39and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.

    40As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age.

    41The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.

    42They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • Matt 13:29-30
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    29No, he answered, because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.

    30Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.

  • Luke 3:9
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    9And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore that does not produce good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

  • Isa 33:11-12
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    11You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble; your breath, as fire, will devour you.

    12The people will be burned to lime; like thorns cut up, they will be burned in the fire.

  • Luke 3:18
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    18So, with many other exhortations, he preached to the people.

  • Jer 15:7
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    7And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they do not return from their ways.

  • Matt 7:19
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    19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • Mal 4:1
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    1For behold, the day comes that shall burn like an oven, and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

  • Matt 13:48-50
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    48When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away.

    49This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous.

    50And throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • Rev 14:18-19
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    18And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe.

    19And the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

  • John 15:6
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    6If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

  • Isa 66:15
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    15For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

  • Rev 14:10
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    10He shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of his indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

  • Isa 41:15-16
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    15Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.

    16You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.

  • Job 21:18
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    18They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

  • Luke 11:23
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    23He who is not with me is against me: and he who does not gather with me scatters.

  • Luke 12:49
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    49I have come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it is already kindled?

  • Joel 3:13
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    13Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, get down, for the press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.

  • Matt 12:30
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    30He that is not with me is against me; and he that does not gather with me scatters abroad.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For wickedness burns like the fire; it will devour the briers and thorns and will kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they will mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

  • Jer 4:11
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    11At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

  • Ezek 22:21
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    21Yes, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of My wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst.

  • Hos 13:3
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    3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

  • Ps 58:9
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    9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

  • Isa 30:24
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    24The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

  • Mark 9:48
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    48Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

  • John 15:2
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    2Every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may produce more fruit.

  • Mark 1:7
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    7And preached, saying, There comes one mightier than I after me, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7With which the mower does not fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves his bosom.

  • Isa 5:24
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    24Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • Matt 3:3
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    3For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

  • Mal 3:2
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    2But who may endure the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap:

  • Ps 21:9
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    9You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall consume them.

  • Matt 15:13
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    13But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.

  • Isa 28:28
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    28Bread grain is crushed, yet he does not thresh it forever, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor crush it with his horsemen.